We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Claude LeviStrauss

I was an elementary school teacher.

Luciano Pavarotti

My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.

Vincent Gallo

;now that one was mature then, said Peter, one could watch, one could understand, and one did not lose the power of feeling, he said. No, that is true, said Sally. She felt more deeply, more passionately, every year. It increased, he said, alas, perhaps, but one should be glad of it-- it went on increasing in his experience.

Virginia Woolf

Thomas Jefferson -- still surv

John Adams

Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.

Orson Scott Card

This mesa plain had an appearance of great antiquity, and of incompleteness; as if, with all the materials for world-making assembled, the Creator had desisted, gone away and left everything on the point of being brought together, on the eve of being arranged into mountain, plain, plateau. The country was still waiting to be made into a landscape.

Willa Cather

I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.

Dick Schaap

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

Jeremy Rifkin

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

Jack Youngblood

The truth shall set you free.

Bible