Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful?God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're as graceful as any bird. They're as mysterious as any animal on earth. No one knows for sure how long they live or what impulses?except for hunger?they respond to. There are more than two hundred and fifty species of shark, and everyone is different from every other one.

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.

Henry David Thoreau

Joy delights in Joy

William Shakespeare

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

William Shakespeare

I loved Elijah Muhammad with a love that I can't adequately describe.

Louis Farrakhan

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

John Mayer

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

Benjamin Franklin

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

Oprah Winfrey

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

B. F. Skinner

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

Dirk Benedict

My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

Rainn Wilson

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

Herodotus

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

Elia Kazan