I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.

The Doctor: Sorry, do you have a name?Idris: Seven hundred years and finally he asks. The Doctor: But what do I call you?Idris: I think you call me... Sexy? The Doctor: [embarrassed] Only when we're alone. Idris: We are alone. The Doctor: Oh. Come on then, Sexy.

Neil Gaiman

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

Berkeley Breathed

I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.

Mary Wesley

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

Elias Canetti

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Bertrand Russell

We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.

Nong Duc Manh

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

Ville Valo

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Doug Larson

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.

Jennifer Granholm

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

Maurice Strong

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe