"It is better to rust out than wear out."

-- Edwin Markham

“Tell me about yourself, Miss Russel." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some slight air of polite inattention in his manner stopped me. Instead, I found myself grinning at him. "Why don't you tell me about myself, Mr. Holmes?”
“Your pain has a purpose. Your problems, struggles, heartaches, and hassles cooperate toward one end-the glory of God.”
“I've never really had any trouble coming up with ideas; they just grow, like weeds. The weeding is the hard part.”
“One of the remarks made by farmers at their public discussion of these problems suggest that they are rapidly ceasing to think of animals as sentient beings at all. If you handle vast numbers of creatures which are in any case going to die soon, it is, I suppose, easy to get into a state of mind in which they seem to be merely machines.”
“I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.”
“MEN WALK ON THE MOON. To me, this speaks of a time when America wasn't just about the almighty buck. The Russians had put up Sputnik, and the U.S. would not be outdone. I admire that about the American spirit. There's only one spot in history for the first ever of anything.”

Source : Interview with Michelle Monaghan, www.justjared.com. May 18, 2015.
“Carryin' a gun is a chancy thing. Sooner or later a man is put in a position to use it. And a body has to figure that if somebody packs iron he plans to use it when the time comes; and if he draws it out, he plans to shoot.”
“We comes from God, I from the Devil.”

Source : Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.115, Penguin

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