I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Elspeth Huxley

What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?

Theodore Roethke

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Carl Gustav Jung

'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.

Joel Kinnaman

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

George Bernard Shaw

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

Friedrich Engels

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

Alexander Pope

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

Story Musgrave

Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.

Jennifer Granholm

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

Gregory Bateson

One day I went up to my mom and I said, 'Mom, can I have permission to build a 2.3-million electron-volt atom smasher - a betatron - in the garage?' And my mom stared at me, and she said, 'Sure. Why not? And don't forget to take out the garbage.'

Michio Kaku

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

Matthew Fox