"You do it with your own two hands, so there's a sense of pride. You really do forget all our problems, because you're focusing on the food."

“Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.”

“Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years.”

“The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.”

“If you're an actress and even one person knows your name, you're lucky.”

Source : "A Woman We Love: Paula Patton". Interview with Ryan D'agostino, www.esquire.com. August 4, 2008.

“My whole life has been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that let's you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first compost heap.”

Source : Ragna Thiis Stang, Edvard Munch (1979). “Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist”

“If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.”

“All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And theres only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.”

Source : Daniell Cornell, Ruth Asawa (2006). “The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air”, University of California Press

“If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.”