They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

Katherine Fullerton Gerould

Looking back isn't going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do.

McKayla Maroney

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

Plato

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Jean Baudrillard

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

Jonathan Demme

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to is.

Catfish Hunter

My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.

John Henry Carver

Only in the self we grope To the misty end of time: Truth has put an end to hope. What of all the heart to love? Sadder than for will or soul, No light lured it on above; Love has found itself the whole.

George William Russell

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

David Ogden Stiers

Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.

Madonna Ciccone

The problem is normal was'nt in my DNA. I was destined to be forever freakish.

Julie Hockley

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Daniel Barenboim