There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

James Lovelock

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Henry David Thoreau

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Hal Borland

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

Kurt Vonnegut

I've directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises.

Penny Marshall

If the world would fall apart in a fiction-worthy wind, I wouldn't change a thing now that you're here.

Brandon Boyd

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

Marilyn Monroe

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot

Allan Beck

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

John Dryden

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

Hedy Lamarr

Work is more fun than fun.

Noel Coward