If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.

Rudolf Diesel

The earth will never be the same againRock, water, tree, iron, share this greifAs distant stars participate in the pain.A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf,A dolphin death, O this particular lossA Heaven-mourned; for if no angel criedIf this small one was tossed away as dross,The very galaxies would have lied.How shall we sing our love's song nowIn this strange land where all are born to die?Each tree and leaf and star show howThe universe is part of this one cry,Every life is noted and is cherished,and nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

Madeleine L'Engle

Memory is the receptacle and case of science: and therefore mine being so treacherous, if I know little, I cannot much complain. I know, in general, the names of the arts, and of what they treat, but nothing more. I turn over books; I do not study them. What I retain I no longerrecognise as another's; 'tis only what my judgment has made its advantage of, the discourses and imaginations in which it has been instructed: the author, place, words, and other circumstances, I immediately forget; and I am so excellent at forgetting, that I no less forget my own writingsand compositions than the rest. I am very often quoted to myself, and am not aware of it. Whoever should inquire of me where I had the verses and examples, that I have here huddled together, would puzzle me to tell him, and yet I have not borrowed them but from famous and known authors, not contenting myself that they were rich, if I, moreover, had them not from rich and honourable hands, where there is a concurrence of authority with reason. It is no great wonder if my book run the same fortune that otherbooks do, if my memory lose what I have written as well as what I have read, and what I give, as well as what I receive.

Michel de Montaigne

I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

Rachel Roy

Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.

Sir Henry Wotton

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Thomas Jefferson

Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

C.S. Lewis

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

Larry Niven

Black as night, sweet as sin.

Neil Gaiman

I have no patience at all.

Alan Sugar

Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election.

Eric Alterman

Mrs. Cole was a good democrat. She hated all kids equally.

Stephen King