The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure. – Lyndon B. Johnson Category: Inventing, Inventions
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear. – Bertolt Brecht Category: Inventing, Inventions
Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak. – John Donne Category: Letters
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness. – Jose Marti Category: famous
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler Category: Writing
I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me. – Gene Hackman Category: Morning
