The skull is nature's sculpture.

Science is facts.

Henri Poincare

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.

Sarah Vowell

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva. Rejecting the Peacekeeper will knock the legs out from under the negotiating table. (On importance of the MX missile)

Ronald Reagan

When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.

Lewis Carroll

No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.

Suze Orman

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

Sir Winston Churchill

Learn how to live, and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll learn how to live.

Morrie Schwartz

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest,

Christopher Morley

I believe in the power of weakness.

Pat Buckley

Age before beauty ... And pearls before swine.

Parker, Dorothy