"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants."
Sir Isaac Newton(12/25/1642 – 03/20/1727)
English scientist
"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants."
Sir Isaac Newton
"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."
Henrik Ibsen
"I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting."
Isabel Burton
"The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do."
B. F. Skinner
"Dear me, I never knew that the lower classes had such white skins."
Lord Curzon
"It takes fifteen thousand casualties to train a major-general."
Marechal Ferdinand Foch
"She Got the Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft."
Jerry Reed
"You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold."
William Hurt
"I get onstage with Eric[Clapton] or B. B. [King], and I am terrified. You couldn't drive a nail in my ass with a sledgehammer. Don't repeat that: it won't come off very good."
Jimmie Lee Vaughan
"Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again."
Spike Lee
"I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun."
Holly Hunter
"I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
Brendan Behan
"I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've concluded, is now an insufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats."
Chet Huntley