If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Marcus Aurelius

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.

Jonathan Kozol

It's no secret that I love the Ultimate line.

Robert Kirkman

Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful.

Ayelet Waldman

Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.

Raquel Welch

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

Victor Hugo

From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

Melissa George

Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

Jose Padilha

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

Oscar Wilde

There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people, if he's any good.

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We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Martin L. Gross

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

Bertrand Russell