"The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."
-Tom Stoppard
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"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."
-Jeff Bridges
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
-Tom Stoppard
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
-Novalis
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
-Caspar David Friedrich
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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
-Brian Eno
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