I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

John Donne

All thoughts, all passions, all delightsWhatever stirs this mortal frameAll are but ministers of LoveAnd feed His sacred flame.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Ben Sweetland

J. D. Watson (24 Sept. 1993). Succeeding in Science: Some Rules of Thumb. Science 261: 1812-1813.

James D. Watson

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

Jeff Valdez

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

Iain Banks

My dad was good with actions.

William Shatner

GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current

Tom Stoppard

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

Meg Greenfield

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Albert Einstein

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration tomoral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually writtenin it?

Richard Dawkins