Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels. (Joan Walsh Anglund)
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed. (Confucius)
I know some good marriages -- marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other. (Erica Jong)
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit. (Aristotle)
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening. (Jerry Coleman)
Delay always breeds danger. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now. (Jerry Coleman)
It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me. (Keri Hulme)
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. (James Stephens)
All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
You were a stranger to sorrow therefore Fate has cursed you. (Euripides)
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. (Albert Einstein)
To defend one's self against fear is simply to ensure that one will, one day, be conquered by it fears must be faced. (James Arthur Baldwin)
Consumers are statistics. Customers are people. (Stanley Marcus)
Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose. (Richard Dawkins)
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. (Walt Whitman)
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things. (Bobby Knight)
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. (Neil Gershenfeld)