If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

For after the Battle comes quiet.

The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.

It's against reason, " said Filby."What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.

I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.

Every event in one’s life has a lesson to teach. The thoughtful imbibe the lesson and forget the incident. The thoughtless forget the lesson but keep thinking about the event.

The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.

Man by nature wants to know.

Hillary Clinton wanted to hide what she was doing so that there was no trail

That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life

Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.