"Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."

"Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away."

"You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends."

"The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone."

"Man can embody truth bet he cannot know it."

"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions."

"Am I about to feel really, really stupid?"

"We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos."

"I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving."

"From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story."

"Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!"

"That's our job - to strap rockets onto everything."

"I'm not a sculptor; I'm a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from 'Star Wars' - especially parts from 'Star Wars' - I can do this stuff all day long. It's exactly how I made my living for 15 years."

"I think at this point, there's a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can't ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we're quite aware of. Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact."

"I would have to say that looked like it hurt."

"I believe that inside every tool is a hammer."

"It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says ''there is no wisdom without leisure.''"

"Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain-beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering"

"The friends that have it I do wrongWhen ever I remake a song,Should know what issue is at stake:It is myself that I remake."

"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met."

"Civilization is hoped together, brought under a rule, under the semblance of peace by manifold illusion, but Man's life is thought, and he, despite his terror, cannot cease, ravening through century after century ravening, raging and uprooting, that"

"In Imagination only we find a Human Faculty that touches nature at one side, and spirit on the other. Imagination may be described as that which is sent bringing spirit to nature, entering into nature, and seemingly losing its spirit, that nature being revealed as symbol may lose the power to delude."

"Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."

"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?"