"... it can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely."

“Tis best to build no castles in the air.”

Source : Fanny Burney, Stewart Cooke (2011). “The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume II: 1787”, p.293, Oxford University Press

“Believe in God, for with the grace of God the American rockets will go astray and we will be saved.”

Source : "Cracks appear in coalition" by Ewen MacAskill, Ian Black and Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2001.

“Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.”

“Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.”

“We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.”

“I can't walk, so I can't go home. No need to talk, cause I'm all alone. If I stay here they're gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.”

“My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.”

“That's the game of baseball - amazing things happen.”