Sally Vickers

"The desire to be loved is as basic a need as that for physical sustenance. But to take delight in being loved requires nerve. For where life is most ardently awakened, it can be most excruciatingly extinguished and the fear of that possibility can tragically become the wet blanket which smothers the most sacred of... flames ... "

Sally Vickers (The Other Side of You)

Gregory Colbert

"The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song."

Gregory Colbert

Ayn Rand

"I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved, that is the unanswered in my life."

Ayn Rand

Terry Pratchett

"Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?"
Mort thought for a moment.
"No," he said eventually, "what?"
There was silence.
Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right."

"Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on."

Terry Pratchett

Meredith Grey

"I wish there were a rulebook for intimacy. Some kind of guide to tell you when you've crossed the line. It would be nice if you could see it coming, and I don't know how you fit it on a map. You take it where you can get it, and keep it as long as you can. And as for rules, maybe there are none. Maybe the rules of intimacy are something you have to define for yourself. "

Meredith Grey

Douglas Adams

"'Did I do anything wrong today,' he said, 'or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?'"

"The problem with designing something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of a complete fool. "

"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which."

"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."

"Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes."

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."

"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."

"If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion."

"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."

"Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy."