Jay Rockefeller
Jay Rockefeller
United States Senator
We will push through health care reform regardless of the views of the American people.
Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett
Novelist
Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.
Anaximander
Anaximander
Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.
Hypatia
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.
Victor Ortiz
Victor Ortiz
Boxer
With success comes a lot of failure, and it doesn't matter how many times you fall it just depends on how you get up and keep succeeding.
Florian Znaniecki
Florian Znaniecki
Philosopher
Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.
Alicia Machado
Alicia Machado
Actress
There is no country that has the best men.
John Bellamy Foster
John Bellamy Foster
Professor
If one or two works from a body of work for an exhibition are what you would like to be remembered by, it is a good exhibition.
Characters begin as voices, then gain presence by being viewed in others' eyes. Characters define one another in dramatic contexts. It is often very exciting, when characters meet - out of their encounters, unanticipated stories can spring.
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
Jim Grimsley
Jim Grimsley
Novelist
Words created the future, exacerbated problems, raised barriers between them. But in the silence of Ford's sleep, Ford could love Dan easily; in the stillness of Ford's rest, Dan could adore him without question or fear.
Michael Moss
Michael Moss
Reporter
As a culture, we've become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing. And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public health by a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco.
Sofia Vergara
Sofia Vergara
Actress
Beauty is really all about confidence. If you feel beautiful, then you are beautiful.
Perry Como
Perry Como
Singer
Acting coaches in Hollywood were always telling me to use my hands and body more. But that was never me. I just breathe and sometimes it doesn't look as if I'm doing that.
Giuliano Zaccardelli
Giuliano Zaccardelli
Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
I don't believe a handgun should be in the hands of anybody
Sarah Vowell
Sarah Vowell
Author
I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.
Tommy Smothers
Tommy Smothers
Comedian
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
Flora Thompson
Flora Thompson
Novelist
happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.
Gio Gonzalez
Gio Gonzalez
Baseball athlete
To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.
Tom Wigley
Tom Wigley
Scientist
If you look at the attached plot you will see that the land also shows the 1940s blip (as I'm sure you know). So, if we could reduce the ocean blip by, say, 0.15 degC, then this would be significant for the global mean—but we'd still have to explain the land blip.
Matt Blaze
Matt Blaze
Researcher in cryptography
I believed then, and continue to believe now, that the benefits to our security and freedom of widely available cryptography far, far outweigh the inevitable damage that comes from its use by criminals and terrorists. I believed, and continue to believe, that the arguments against widely available cryptography, while certainly advanced by people of good will, did not hold up against the cold light of reason and were inconsistent with the most basic American values.
Geronimo
Geronimo
Apache Warrior & Symbol of Indigenous Resistance
Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you.
Lawson Little
Lawson Little
Golfer
It is impossible to outplay an opponent you can't outthink.
Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.
Meryl Davis
Meryl Davis
Ice dancer
One piece of advice that I would give to any young athlete or performer is remember to thank your mom.
Roland H. Hartley
Roland H. Hartley
Former Governor of Washington
We may as well face the fact, and face it squarely, that we are too much governed. The agencies of government have multiplied, their ramifications extended, their powers enlarged, and their sphere widened, until the whole system is top-heavy. We are drifting into dangerous and insidious paternalism, submerging the self-reliance of the citizen, and weakening the responsibility and stifling the initiative of the individual. We suffer not from too little legislation but from too much. We need fewer enactments and more repeals.
I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want people to feel a kind of empathy with them. When you think about it, all nature is kind of strange looking.. in fact, I'm a strange a looking creature.
Erika Christensen
Erika Christensen
Film actress
I'm more proud of my upper body. Let's just say I'm a typical female in that way.
James Fitzjames Stephen
James Fitzjames Stephen
Eminent Lawyer, Judge & Thoughtful Writer
To me this question whether liberty is a good or a bad thing appears as irrational as the question whether fire is a good or a bad thing. It is both good and bad according to time, place, and circumstance, and a complete answer to the question, In what cases is liberty good and in what cases is it bad? would involve not merely a universal history of mankind, but a complete solution of the problems which such a history would offer.
Richard Holt Hutton
Richard Holt Hutton
Influential Victorian Writer & Critic
Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.
Peter Temple
Peter Temple
Acclaimed Australian Crime Fiction Author
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.
It [sin] cannot occur at any time nor in any form without his permission. While he does not actively originate it, he holds such absolute control over it that no single event in connection with it can take place without his permission
Stephen Wizner
Stephen Wizner
Champion of Clinical Legal Education & Social Justice
Educating Lawyers succeeds admirably in describing the educational programs at virtually every American law school. The call for the integration of the three apprenticeships seems to me exactly what is needed to make legal education more professional, to prepare law students better for the practice of law, and to address societal expectations of lawyers.
Glenn Reynolds
Glenn Reynolds
Law professor
Personally, I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons.
E. B. White
E. B. White
Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved Classics
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
Rebecca Godfrey
Rebecca Godfrey
Intriguing Author & Investigative Journalist
I saw this girl dancing, and I moved closer to her because I liked the way she looked, haughty and sexy but not in a slutty way, and when I got closer to her, I realized she was me and I was looking at my reflection in the mirror. I looked like the kind of girl I'd always wanted to befriend.
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David
Neoclassical Master & Political Artist
To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.
Diana Krall
Diana Krall
Acclaimed Jazz Vocalist & Pianist
I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.
Daniel Shanks
Daniel Shanks
Mathematical Innovator & Computer Scientist
log log log x goes to infinity with great dignity.