"So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion."

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Source : Alan Lightman (2012). “Mr g: A Novel About the Creation”, p.27, Vintage

Alan Lightman

#Life Quotes #Zero Quotes #Infinity Quotes

“I really love a challenge, but in 'Downton' it was really hard going because there's no CGI - what you see is what you get. These were real explosions right in front of our faces, and you just had to make sure that you cleared out of the way.”
“I always thought that sororities were just made up of cheerleaders from high school. And I kind of picked on those cheerleaders!”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.”

Source : Anzia Yezierska (1923). “Children of Loneliness”
“God Bless the grass That grows through the crack They roll the concrete over it To try and keep it back The concrete gets tired Of what it has to do It breaks and it buckles And the grass grows through. God bless the grass”
“I think that since it's prom, you should definitely wear a long dress. You can wear a short one anytime! This is the moment when you get to be a princess, and for me, that means a sweetheart neckline, long, then pouf - out and big.”
“What we do best is we target the young men and women who are on the fringe. They could go either way. Maybe they have been in trouble before, but not serious trouble. ... We cherry-pick them and circumvent them away from the gang members and drug dealers ... (and encourage) them to hang out with us and become a Guardian Angel.”
“School would be way more tolerable if everyone wasnâ€™t so afraid to be who they really are. And if everyone else would let them.”
“The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow " For better or for worse--it was the last generation in which, broadly speaking, marriage was a commitment and divorce was not an option”

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