"Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it."

-- Macy Gray

“I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.”
“I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.”
“The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.”

Source : Attributed in "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner, 1971.
“Only peons made excusses for themselves she taught me. Never apologize, never explain.”

Source : Marianne Faithfull, David Dalton (2000). “Faithfull: An Autobiography”, p.5, Rowman & Littlefield
“Every third step I ran, my breath exploded out of me all in a rush. One step to suck in another cold lungful. One step to let it excape. One step of not breathing.”
“The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist of three things; the series of facts which are the objects of the science, the ideas which represent these facts, and the words by which these ideas are expressed. Like three impressions of the same seal, the word ought to produce the idea, and the idea to be a picture of the fact.”

Source : Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, David M. Knight (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Elements of chemistry”, p.14, Taylor & Francis
“Because it does feel important to say it really doesn't matter what shape you are.”
“I owe a lot to Nickelodeon.”

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