It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

Joseph Addison

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

Naguib Mahfouz

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

Thomas Fuller

When I accept myself, I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me.

Steve Maraboli

You speak truth, said Themistocles; I should never have been famous if I had been of Seriphus; 4 nor you, had you been of Athens.

Plutarch

I'm a big laser believer - I really think they are the wave of the future.

Courteney Cox

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Chris Bowkett

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Jean Francois Lyotard

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

Cleo Moore

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

Grace Murray Hopper

I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.

Helena Bonham Carter