Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
By : David Lodge
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
By : John Cale
Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.
By : William Irwin Thompson
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.
By : Paul Nurse
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
By : Walt Disney
Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute?
By : Lindsay Lohan
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.
By : Bill Moyers
One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
By : Miguel De Cervantes
I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.
By : Meg Tilly
Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.
By : Louise Brown