"If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?"

“The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.”

Source : Thomas Keneally (2013). “Schindler's List”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

“All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.”

Source : Nicholas Culpeper (1785). “The English Physician Enlarged: With Three Hundred and Sixty-nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs, that Were Not in Any Impression Until this : Being an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation ...”, p.335

“If we want TRULY EXTRAORDINARY VISION then you have to continually expand your horizons, take risks.  If we don’t push our edge we’ll never expand our view.. It’s not trespassing to go beyond your own boundaries.”

“Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.”

“Kim Kardashian is single again. Hey, great. Maybe that will give the NBA players something to do during the lockout.”

“Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.”

“Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.”

Source : Imre Lakatos (1978). “Philosophical Papers”

“You know God gives me that inner strength that super strength to get through things.”