The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

I was born to be an explorer. There never was any decision to make. I coudn't be anything else and be happy,the desire to see new places, to discover new facts- the curiosity of life always has been a resistless driving force to me.

Roy Chapman Andrews

Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.

Scott Cook

I wanted to get out and walk southward toward the park through the soft twilight, but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild, strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair. Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great G

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Walter Benjamin

I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.

Sue Grafton

I will see beauty and goodness in all things. From all that is unlovely shall my vision be immune.

Walter Russell

I want to be as healthy as I can because I'm a mom now.

Jessica Simpson

I have beheld no day since the commencement of hostilities that I have thought her liberties in such eminent danger as at present. Friends and foes seem now to combine to pull down the goodly fabric as we have hitherto been raising at the expence of so much time, blood, and treasure; and unless the bodies politick will exert themselves to bring things back to first principles, correct abuses, and punish our internal foes, inevitable ruin must follow.

George Washington

You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.

Carre Otis

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

Petra Ecclestone

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

Halle Berry