If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing.

–Kingsley Amis

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

–Thornton Wilder

Our two greatest problems are gravity and paper work. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

–Wernher Von Braun

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

–Douglas Adams

It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best to at least rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

–Luther Burbank

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

–Bill Vaughan

There are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

–Ellen Glasgow

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.

–Albert Einstein