I have the strong impression that scientific communication is being seriously hindered by poor quality abstracts written in jargon- ridden mumbo jumbo.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

Brian Tracy

A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.

Paulo Coelho

In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.

St. Vincent

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

Henry Fielding

The only true love is love at first sight second sight dispels it.

Israel Zangwill

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

John Cage

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

E.M. Forster

But I've always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate - at least as far as possible - from the kind of illusory lifestyle that comes with being a celebrity.

Winona Ryder

I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.

Douglas Wilson

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Edmund Burke

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

Calvin Coolidge