The word 'mundane' has come to mean boring and dull, and it really shouldn't. It should mean the opposite because it comes from the latin 'mundus', meaning the world, and the world is anything but dull; the world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

Ernest Hemingway

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Rogers Hornsby

I went down to the store and bought some blank cassette tapes.When I got home I put one in my cassette deck and turned it upfull blast. I was walking around my house when I heard a knockon my door. It was my neighbor complaining about thenoise... He's a mime.

Steven Wright

To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

G. K. Chesterton

You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they'll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.

Robert Rodriguez

But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.

Ginnifer Goodwin

Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

James A. Garfield

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality.

Charlie Brooker

See what I mean? You gotta be crazy. Ain't no time to be sane.

Robin P. Williams

He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

Thomas Kempis

We must substitute courage for caution.

Martin Luther King Jr.