Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

Alexander Payne

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

C.S. Lewis

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

John Steinbeck

I would venture to guess that if I was a construction worker... who requested a transfer to another department for the betterment of his family, I would be commended for it. But because it's sports, there's just so much passion added to it.

Derek Fisher

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

Gavin Bryars

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.

James H. Breasted

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads on like a gray vegetation.

Jean Arp

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

Steven Squyres

The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

W. Averell Harriman

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

Rosalynn Carter

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

Chris Hemsworth