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“Researchers argue that it's of utmost importance to unravel the nature of black holes, lest we someday begin to worship them. Sounds ridiculous, but whole segments of humankind have often revered the unknowable, venerating that which cannot be tested experimentally. Come to think of it, many still do in twenty-first-century society.”
Source : Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.101, Columbia University Press
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“I dreamed in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth;  I dreamed that was the new City of Friends;  Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love—it led the rest;  It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,  And in all their looks and words.”
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“There is no inherent virtue to instantaneity.”
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“If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.”
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“Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.”
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“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.”
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“I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 
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“I don't like big feet. It reminds me of gammon.”
Source : Steve Coogan (2003). “Alan Partridge: every ruddy word : all the scripts - from radio to TV and back”
