"Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict."

“Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.”

Source : John Desmond Bernal (1967). “The origin of life”

“I swore on screen when I got the Olivier for 'Legally Blonde,' I was so surprised. Awards where the public vote mean a lot. I'm a big Twitter fan and like talking to people who support me.”

“I have a no-apology policy.”

“Ah, youth. It's like heroin you've smoked instead of snorted. Gone so fast you can't believe you still have to pay for it.”

Source : Josh Bazell (2009). “Beat The Reaper”, p.108, Random House

“The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor.”

Source : Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

“Ask a new question and you will learn new things.”

Source : George Greenstein (1988). “The symbiotic universe: life and mind in the cosmos”

“I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.”

Source : "Robert Moses, Master Builder, is Dead at 92" by Paul Goldberger, archive.nytimes.com. July 30, 1981.

“How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!”