Categories Starting with “I”

“Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.”

— Edmund Burke

“Paris Hilton, it turns out, is related to fellow celebrity jailbirds Zsa Zsa Gabor and G. Gordon Liddy.”

— Steven Pinker

“What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.”

— Noam Chomsky

“I don't think that it's up to government to dictate what people should wear.”

— Richard Dawkins

“I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.”

— J. K. Rowling

“Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.”

— Bill Gates

“Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.”

— Jeff Bezos

“I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.”

— Stephen Hawking

“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.”

— Bill Gates