The term HDTV (high definition television) was coined to describe the possibility of getting pretty pictures. But what

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Thomas Jefferson, "Letter to Col

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Karl Marx

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

Maria Mitchell

Even in times of war, you can see current events in their historical perspective, provided that your passion for the truth prevails over your bias in favor of your own nation.

Leo Szilard

During sex my girlfriend always wants to talk to me. Just the other night she called me from a hotel.

Rodney Dangerfield

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

Hannah More

But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, that can only be created by the imagination.

David Benioff

Happiness is like coke something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else

Aldous Huxley

It ain't what you eat, but the way how you chew it.

Delbert Mcclinton

I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now see it mapped in my minds eye - as, indeed, on paper - as so many mens wood-lots, and am aware when I walk there that I am at a given moment passing from such a ones wood-lot to such anothers. I fear this particular dry knowledge may affect my imagination and fancy, that it will not be easy to see so much wildness and native vigor there as formerly.

Henry David Thoreau

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

Niels Bohr

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

Patrick Wilson