"I think many years ago I got on a bus in L.A. and drove around to see the stars' homes, but that's the extent of my direct experience in Hollywood."

-- Justin Cronin

#Stars Quotes #Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.”
“I said, "Well, why do you believe in the Klein Bottle?" He said, "Because I can imagine it." I said, "You don't have to imagine a Mobius strip. It's right there in front of you!" But [Buckminster Fuller] couldn't see how that could involve a cross cap, meaning something that couldn't be reduced to a two-dimensional surface. Which it does. It's because he was thinking that the matrix was the thing that a fly could walk over the edge of, like a torus.”
“I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.”
“You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.”
“The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.”
“I told Tantalus to go chase a doughnut.”
“And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating for people seeking absolute faith, but for me it gives religion an ambidextrous quality that suits my temperament.”

Source : Jonathan Rosen (2001). “The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey Between Worlds”, p.85, A&C Black

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