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“If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.”
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“Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.”
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“So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a convenient language; but isn't that a mediocre service, which after all we could have done without; and, it is not even to be feared that this artificial language be a veil, interposed between reality and the physicist's eye? Far from that, without this language most of the initimate analogies of things would forever have remained unknown to us; and we would never have had knowledge of the internal harmony of the world, which is, as we shall see, the only true objective reality.”
Source : "Statistical Mechanics of Disordered Systems: A Mathematical Perspective". Book by Anton Bovier, p. 3, 2006.
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“Home is where you hang your hangover.”
Source : James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.165, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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“I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.”
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“Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves. So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important.”
Source : William Cohen's remarks at the news briefing of U.S. Department of Defense, April 28, 1997.
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“The most beautiful man in the world says everything with his eyes, and the rest with his hands and mouth.”
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“Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life – of my grandfather’s days in the army; his great love for my grandmother; the years he spent as a surgeon and a tyrant of the University. One, which I learned after his death, is the story of how my grandfather became a man; the other, which he told to me, is of how he became a child again.”
Source : Tea Obreht (2011). “The Tiger's Wife”, p.15, Hachette UK
