"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking of something else." Horace Greeley
"...colors like a flourish of trumpets or pianissimo on the violin, great, calm, oscillating, splintered surgances... Is this not form?"
"There are four departments. There's the executive, and the legislative, and the judicial, and—the Bill of Rights."
"There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery." Enrico Fermi
"I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions." Dorothy Day
"You know what I want? I want yesterday." Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko
"OLD CARY GRANT FINE. HOW YOU?" Archibald Alec Leach
"One day in Hollywood I read a script in which the character was described as 'charming but dull—a typical Ralph Bellamy type'. I promptly headed for New York to find a part with guts."
"I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move." Coleman Young
"A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank." Jak Szold
"I'd join a band with John Lennon anyday, but I wouldn't join a band with Paul McCartney." George Harrison