"While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps."

“SETI is probably the most important quest of our time , and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.”

“Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.”

“I want to be a Christian like Christ - loving and accepting of other people.”

“When you have a large space to conquer, the curve is the natural solution.”

Source : "Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer". Book by Oscar Niemeyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1998.

“A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, 'I love you.'”

“Women with short hair are really sexy. There's something liberating about freeing yourself from the norms,”

Source : "‘Game of Thrones’ star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau keeps homicidal streak alive in ‘Headhunters’ " by Ethan Sacks, www.nydailynews.com. April 28, 2012.

“I never knew I wanted to become a ballerina. I was discovered at the age of 13. I had a love for movement even though I had no exposure to dance other than what I saw in music videos, like hip-hop music videos. But I knew that I loved moving.”

“If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.”