"Impromptu thoughts are mental wild-flowers."

-- Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

“It (Congress) is a funny party. It is the largest political organization in the world but perhaps does not have a single rule or regulation. We create new rules every two minutes and then dump them. Nobody knows the rules in the party”
“There are all sorts of topics and themes that just recur time and time again, which either means people have less imagination or that people never get bored of them... or both!”
“I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.”

Source : "The Atomic Scientists, the Sense of Wonder and the Bomb" by Mark Fiege in Enviornmental History, Vol. 12, Issue 3, July 2007.
“Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.”
“I was in high school when Will Ferrell was first on 'Saturday Night Live', and I remember thinking, 'Man, that guy is the funniest guy ever.'”
“Never,ever confuse what happens on a runway with fashion. A runway is spectacle. It's only fashion when a woman puts it on. Being well dressed hasn't much to do with having good clothes. It's a question of good balance and good common sense.”
“I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent.”
“I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.”

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