How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

Richard H. Tawney

The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

Karl Rove

Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

Vincent Cassel

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

Gregory ''Pappy'' Boyington

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?

Katherine Jenkins

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good

Do something every day that you don't want to do this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Mark Twain

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

Gustave Flaubert

What we say is the truth is what everybody accepts.... I mean, psychiatry: it's the latest religion. We decide what's right and wrong. We decide who's crazy or not. I'm in trouble here. I'm losing my faith.

Madeleine Stowe

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

Jim Harrison

This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.

Timothy Radcliffe