"If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep."

“I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.”

“I think even though things are changing a bit, we still kind of tend to grow up with girls being like, 'Don't be too loud, don't be too rude, don't be too naughty,' or whatever, to act a certain way.”

Source : "Courtney Barnett on songwriting, self-confidence, and her record label". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

“To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.”

“As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.”

“Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.”

“Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely no obligation to examine their transient reality.”

Source : "From Kant to Hilbert: A Source Book in the Foundations of Mathematics". Book by William Bragg Ewald, 1996.

“God gives salvation to the needy, but gives the deep things of His heart to the hungry who refuse to live without them.”

“An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; it discovers a greater instrument than intellect can give you, the instrument of inspiration.”