Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

Jim Dine

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.

K. D. Lang

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Kahlil Gibran

I remember being at Greenblatt's on Sunset, and some guy just walked straight up to me, and he had some bling on and whatever, and said something about a party down in Malibu and asked if I would jump in his car and go to the party. All I could think was, 'Who are you? I don't know you, and I don't care about how good your car is.'

Yvonne Strahovski

Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over?

Nicholas Sparks

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

John Sterling

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp

Terry Pratchett

With foxes we must play the fox.

Thomas Fuller

I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.

Hilaire Belloc

You'll get into dreadful trouble and it won't be my fault. You are bad people.

Terry Pratchett