I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

John Bardeen

Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

Virginia Woolf

It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.

Laura Linney

The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.

Douglas Hofstadter

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

Gertrude Jekyll

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

Bob Marley

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Sydney J. Harris

It sometimes takes a state of solitude to bring to mind the real power of companionship.

Stephen Richards

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.

Paulo Coelho

It's amazing to me that, in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, women today still receive fewer wages than men for the same work.

Mike Honda

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Your wife is a big hippo! My face is melting! My face is meltinnnnggg!

Terry Pratchett