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There's a common component of scientific thought which says that a) if you're not a convicted Scientist then you can't get involved in discussions about Science and b) Science is all about Progress and means that things will always get better if Scientists are in Control.
-- Neil Lewis

"Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead."
-- Sinclair Lewis

"Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest."
-- Neil Kinnock

"The BBC is like a sausage machine: whatever you put in one end, you get Dr. Who out the other".
-- Neil Gaiman

Life's weird, that's why I'm sticking around till the end.
-- George Neville-Neil

Behaviorism is the art of pulling habits out of rats.
-- O'Neill

"Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think."
-- Neils Bohr

I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer

Nobody's creepy from the inside, Hazel. Some of them are sad, and some of them hurt, and some of them think they're the only real thing in the whole world. But they're not creepy.
-- Neil Gaiman

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
-- Neil Gaiman ("The Books of Magic")

A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.

"You ever hear of the Spartans, Lewis? Ancient Greece...traditional enemies of the Athenians? They were a warrior society. I'll try to make it simple for you...they were Klingon."
(The Rhipodon Society)

"They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me."
-- Nathaniel Lee (on being consigned to a mental institution, circa 17th century)

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.
-- Mark Twain.

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood

Without followers, evil cannot spread.
-- Spock (Star Trek, "And The Children Shall Lead")

"The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender."
-- Emil Ludwig

"Right and wrong are not what separate us and our enemies. It's our different standpoints, our perspectives that separate us. Both sides blame one another. There's no good or bad side. Just 2 sides holding different views."
-- Squall Leonhart (Final Fantasy 8)