If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

Don't they know science doesn't work like that? You can't just order scientific breakthroughs. They happen when you are looking at something you've been working on for years and suddenly see a connection you never noticed before, or when you're looking for something else altogether. Sometimes they even happen by accident. Don't they know you can't get a scientific breakthrough just because you want one?

Connie Willis

I think we're in trouble if people don't stop thinking everything that's going wrong is due to accidental opinions.

James Dye

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

Dwight D Eisenhower

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Henry David Thoreau

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

C.S. Lewis

She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.

John Dryden

Football is a sad game.

George Best

One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

Eugene O'Neill

I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.

Kelly Preston

Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.

Joe Montana

Mrs. Montagu has dropt me. Now, Sir, there are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.

Samuel Johnson

Mr. Blumenthal stated that Monica Lewinsky had been a 'stalker' and that the president was 'the victim' of a predatory and unstable sexually demanding young woman, ... Referring to Ms. Lewinsky, Mr. Blumenthal used the word 'stalker' several times.

Christopher Hitchens