I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate.

Kenneth R. Miller

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

Richard Eyre

It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It may be a very little thing to you; but it is every thing to the young man.

John Bartholomew Gough

So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.

Amy Waldman

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?

Andy Rooney

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb

Once we have resolved only to see those who will treat us morally and virtuously, reasonably and truthfully, without treating conventions, vanities and ceremonials as anything other than props of polite society, we will have to live more or less on our own.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Aristotle

Be it Valentine's Day, Father's Day or Mother's Day, I feel all days are reminders of some feelings. February 14 doesn't hold any special relevance for me.

Randeep Hooda

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

H. L. Mencken

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

Simon van der Meer