Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.

Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage.

Charles Luckman

Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Brian Tracy

Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

Anthony Doerr

As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

Ed Pastor

At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation.

Howard Aiken, Proposed Automatic

If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable, why whither we are tending is even worse - and why his own alternative path forward is superior - then we trust the American people to make the right choice in November.

Bill Kristol

Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.

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My mother was a professional sick person she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

Jim Carrey

Of science and logic he chatters, As fine and as fast as he can; Though I am no judge of such matters, I'm sure he's a talented man.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up.

Rachel Hunter

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

John Maynard Keynes