From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

George Orwell

God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle ofthis adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.

Paulo Coelho

There's nothing colder than chemistry.

Anita Loos

And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as it was tens of thousands of years before the back. But typical events in galactic dynamics occupy tens of millions of years, so the error in thinking of an image of a galaxy as frozen in one moment of time is small.

Carl Sagan

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

George Bernard Shaw

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Benjamin Franklin

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

Anthony Burgess

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Noam Chomsky

You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...

Steven J. Carroll

If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list - any of those Oscar-nominated films, they have amazing directors across the board.

Timothy Olyphant

The Christian who will sit with sealed lips when his Master is assailed, when religion is attacked, when wickedness is broached and defended, when truth is denounced, is a denier of his Lord, as guilty as Simon Peter in Pilate's hall.

Theodore L. Cuyler