The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.

Before the quantum theory appeared, the principle of the uniformity of nature - that like causes produce like effects - had been accepted as a universal and indisputable fact of science. As soon as the atomicity of radiation became established, this principle had to be discarded.

James Jeans

I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

Shirley Manson

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

Eva Gabor

If I am to succeed, the sooner I know it, the less uneasiness I shall have to go through. If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off: and if I do meet with one, I hope in God, and verily believe; it will be the last.

Thomas Jefferson

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

Mark Twain

I don't like being alone.

Cristiano Ronaldo

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.

JeanLuc Godard

What we do in life, echoes in eternity.

Maximus

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

Plato

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.

Soichiro Honda

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

Mark Twain

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

Ralph Waldo Emerson