Who was this women?' asked Harry.'I dunno, some Ministry hag.'Mundungus considered for a moment, brow wrinkled.'Little women. Bow on top of er' head.'He frowned and then added, 'Looked like a toad.'Harry dropped his wand.Harry looked up and saw his own shock reflected in Ron and Hermione's faces. The scars on the back of right hand seemed to be tingling again.

It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

Pierre de Fermat

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

Jonas Salk

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.

Jerry Pournelle

Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

Francis Bacon

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Mark Twain

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Robert Frost

I will open my mouth in a parable I will utter dark sayings of old.Things that we have heard and known,that our fathers told us.We will not hide them from their children,but tell it to the coming generations.

Bible, Psalm 78:14

She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.

David Gest

I didn't think; I experimented.

Wilhelm Roentgen

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

Edgar Sheffield Brightman

Intelligence is a moral category.

Theodor Adorno

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

Charles Lamb