"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."

"To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at school -- women must labor to be beautiful."

"Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste."

"Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song."

"Time's bitter flood will rise,Your beauty perish and be lostFor all eyes but these eyes."

"May she be granted beauty and yet notBeauty to make a stranger's eye distraught,Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,Being made beautiful overmuch,Consider beauty a sufficient end,Lose natural kindness and maybeThe heart-revealing intimacyThat chooses right, and never find a friend."

"All changed, changed utterly:A terrible beauty is born."

"Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark."

"Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned."

"One had a lovely face, and two or three had charm, but charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass cannot keep the form where the mountain hare has lain."

"The things that have been told us in our childhoodAre not so fragile."

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."

"Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought."

"I would mould a world of fire and dew."

"When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep."

"Because of that great nobleness of hersThe fire that stirs about her, when she stirs,Burns but more clearly."

"I at midnight by the clock may creep into your bed."

"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."

"I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera."

"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

"I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots"

"No expectation fails there,No pleasing habit ends,No man grows old, no girl grows cold,But friends walk by friends."

"Evil comes to all us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues."

"Come swish around, my pretty punk,And keep me dancing stillThat I may stay a sober manAlthough I drink my fill."

"How can we know the dancer from the dance?"

"Who can tell the dancer from the dance?"

"A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love."

"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught."

"Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before."

"Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."

"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."

I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman's utility belt.

"Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip."

"I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend."

"New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy."

"The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down."

"That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done."

"That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done."

"Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate."

"Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono. I mean it's ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much."

"The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard."

"An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick"

"Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire."

"when sleepers wake and yet still dream"

"But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams."

"In dreams begin responsibility"

"I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

"Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round."

"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

"But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."