"Our relationships as experimentalists with theoretical physicists should be like those with a beautiful woman - we should accept with gratitude any favours she offers, but we should not expect too much nor believe all that is said."

“We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”

Source : Nathaniel Hawthorne (2005). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.124, Prestwick House Inc

“Nature is woman's best friend,' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That's how a woman cures her fears'.”

“Isn’t everyone’s life a mass of contradictions?”

“When Catullus expresses his love and hate for Lesbia, he is not obviously voicing a wish to rid himself of one or the other of these two sentiments. Not all contradictions resolve into temporal change of belief or desire.”

Source : Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.3, Princeton University Press

“Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.”

“It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.”

“Jews don't care about ancient rivalries. We worry about humidity in Miami.”

“Why is it suddenly uncool to spell? That's all I want to know.”

Source : MaryJanice Davidson (2011). “Undead and Undermined: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.86, Penguin