A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

Rick Snyder

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Thomas Mann

Truth here makes Falsehood torment lying tongues.

Leonardo da Vinci

It's not what the dream is but what the dream does.

John Johnson

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.

Jeff Goodell

One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.

Rupert Murdoch

Sometimes I do envision just being a stay at home mom but not working isn't an option for me currently.

Tori Spelling

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Queen Elizabeth II

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Norman Cousins

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Miguel de Unamuno

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Claude M. Bristol

Their daddy was fond of saying that mistakes weren't sins. The sin was not to learn from them.

Judith Henry Wall