"People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and I'm not really."

“You’re not buying news when you buy The New York Times. You’re buying judgment.”

“In a great gasp, puts her head in her hands again and cries as if her throat were a cave, as if the howling winds came from her belly, she cries like a storm that will never end.”

“The martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a fife. There's that roistering spirit in men which leads them to think a good fight is a lark - until they've been in one. And the impulse to fight for your own incarnation of an ideal.”

Source : Margaret Ayer Barnes (1933). “Within this Present”

“I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.”

“The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.”

Source : Frederick Soddy (1912). “Matter and energy”

“I don't know where I end and the world begins. My best guess? Skin. It's the only actual boundary between the body and the world, between a body and any other body.”

“Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the name and by the power of free choice, though the heathen and ungodly magicians in Egypt were able to create many.... I will not set you the heavy task of creating lice, which they could not produce either”

“As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.”