A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery (1871-1945)

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)

Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.
- Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
- Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)