Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

Loretta Young

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

Harold Bloom

I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

Randy Harrison

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

Liz Phair

The truth brings no man a fortune.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

William James

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Albert Einstein

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Barack Obama

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

Sheldon B. Kopp

The money men make lives after them.

Samuel Butler

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

Thomas Browne

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Hector Hugh Munro