"I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted."

-- J. M. Coetzee

#Thinking Quotes #Ready Quotes

“In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple).”

Source : Barry Mazur (2004). “Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen)”, p.138, Macmillan
“My approach is that fashion must always be optimistic, and that a woman will always be enticed by beautiful clothes.”
“I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-goâ€‹, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill. I choose purses based on whether I can cram a paperback into them, and my books are the first items I pack into a suitcase. I am the person who family and friends call when they need a book recommendation or cannot remember who wrote Heidi. My identity as a person is so entwined with my love of reading and books that I cannot separate the two.”
“I have a lot of Breton striped top and silk shirts that always feel good. I also like things with a masculine edge and dislike anything too girly.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.”

Source : "Showrunner Michael Schur on building Parks And Recreation's fourth season". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. June 19, 2012.
“I'm not really trying to break the bank like some other people. I just want what's fair.”
“American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.”
“My own mum cared about Hollywood, and I didn't. I wanted to act, and I loved the creativity of it, but I didn't care for the lifestyle.”

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