He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

If it´s cold and cloudy outside, And you want to be a great fella, Make all your troubles go glideOpening a smile as your umbrella.

You know what you have to do, you just can't do it", Sara says wearily. "It's like you have bricks on your feet.

If someone deprives you of your history deprives you of your future

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere or to do anything never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.

I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

When women breached the power structure in the 1980s?two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money.

My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.

I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.