"I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there."

-- William DeVries

#Death Quotes #Heart Quotes #Science Quotes

“I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.”
“Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'”
“I always wanted to do an action movie, not particularly Bond.”
“Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical.”
“All the world's indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another's audience outside the gilded cage”
“In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom”

Source : Mary Ritter Beard, Nancy F. Cott (1991). “A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters”, p.33, Yale University Press
“Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.27, Courier Corporation
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”

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