"I live a generally quiet life, as it were."

-- Minnie Driver

“That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given to us, and, at the same time, heterogeneity, something absolutely new, and a break.”

Source : Jacques Derrida, John D. Caputo (1997). “Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida”, p.6, Fordham Univ Press
“People don't show up here (at the courtroom) because they believe evolution is bad science. They show up because they believe that if they accept evolution, then they are abandoning their religious beliefs. They see it as an either/or proposition: Either evolution happened, or God loves you.”
“Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existedâ€”and never will”

Source : Martin Wolf (2004). “Why Globalization Works”, p.57, Yale University Press
“the use of nuclear weapons is Iran's right.”
“You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would ha' been lively compared with your poor ma when I see her. Lively! that's what they'd ha' been.”
“When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What I can control and all I know as of today, I am signed up for one more year...I guess things could change, but with all the uncertainty in many aspects, I don't see (his decision not to sign an extension) changing before camp gets here, and when camp gets here I'm even more certain to play it out.”
“What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.”

Source : David Quammen (2012). “Wild Thoughts from Wild Places”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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