If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

There isnt a single windmill owner in Holland who doesnt have a second job, for when there is no wind.

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.

To a vampire, there is only selfishness.

I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.

Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable.

With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy.

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.

I don't get a lot of enjoyment out of sitting there for an hour and a half watching a game like we saw between Ireland and England last Sunday.

How! leap into the pit our life to save? To save our life leap all into the grave.