My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.

In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.

So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.

Sometimes I wonder if novel writers aren’t completely f**ked in the head. ~ Drew Stirling

My vengeance was of a different kind. It bore no offense and no ill towards injustice. It had no emotion. Blood and Death. That's all it was." - Celeste- ALL LIGHT WILL FALL

The cut worm forgives the plow.

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

I could eat bloody Elvis - if you put enough vinegar on him.

It's not records I chase, it's self-improvement. And that cannot be done by taking it easy.

The more chances you get, the more comfortable you feel. I?m ready to go out there if something happens. I?ll feel comfortable if I am ever called on.

The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high

When people can say to themselves - "What I'm doing is justified," there is little chance of their modifying a behavior.