"You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind."

“Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.”

Source : Song: Showdown At Big Sky, Album: Robbie Robertson

“Ridley Pearson also plays bass guitar and sings with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of such successful authors as Amy Tan, Stephen King, and Dave Barry-a band that, according to Barry, "plays music as well as Metallica writes novels".”

“The love of wine is a good man's failing.”

“What we have is the here and now, and what we have is each other, and let's find a way to deal truthfully with each other.”

“I don't like the idea that fame could mean that people can no longer relate to me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these; but woe unto us if we wait for such experiences; woe unto us if we do not perceive that these things are of secondary importance.”

“The hypothesis of molecular vortices is defined to be that which assumes - that each atom of matter consists of a nucleus or central point enveloped by an elastic atmosphere, which is retained in its position by attractive forces, and that the elasticity due to heat arises from the centrifugal force of those atmospheres revolving or oscillating about their nuclei or central points.According to this hypothesis, quantity of heat is the vis viva of the molecular revolutions or oscillations.”

Source : William John Macquorn Rankine, Peter Guthrie Tait (1881). “Miscellaneous Scientific Papers”

“Governance allows organizations to...achieve unprecedented automation.”