"The past is a place you can learn from, not a place you want to live."

“But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.”

Source : Joseph Priestley (1966). “The History and Present State of Electricity: With Original Experiments. Reprinted from the 3d Ed., London, 1755, with an Appendix Containing Two Additional Papers of Original Experiments by the Author, and a New Introd. by Robert E. Shofield”

“Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents”

“I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.”

“Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?”

“In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds, a possibility which keeps the audience in a state of tense expectancy. Unfortunately for the fans, however, recent tests reveal that the wisp of chiffon which stands between the publisher and the postal laws has the tensile strength of drop-forged steel.”

“In order to have the best intelligence in the world to know who the terrorists are and where they are and what they're plotting, you've got to have the best cooperation you've ever had in the world.”

“You never truly understand what you are missing until you have it in your grasp and push it away.”

“You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.”