Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?

I support making sure that there are legal protects for everyone.

Debbie Stabenow

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Cyril Connolly

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

Vivien Leigh

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Dylan Thomas

Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'

Tom Hiddleston

We find our own skin more fascinating than any abstract painting.

Michael Lipsey

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama

If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation.

Daniela Pestova

Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Actually it's this easy to explain: When your time's up...poof...your time is up!

Timothy Pina