In sober state, Through the sequestered vale of rural life, The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

Neil Gaiman

We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.

Chen Shui-bian

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

Iain Banks

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Martin Buber

Merlin's pants!

J.K. Rowling

Dad taught us about morals, values and goals. Having a tight-knit family was important to him.

Junior Seau

If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!

Terry Pratchett

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

Andrew Weil

any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

Clive Barker

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound

Duke of Wellington Arthur Welles

This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation.

Ambrose Bierce

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.

Charlie Kaufman