"The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful magic. I should like to state a converse: is not all magic, to the extent that it is successful, geometry?"

-- Rene Thom

#Successful Quotes #Reality Quotes #Space Quotes

“When you got your hand in the lion's mouth, don't do nothin' til you get it out.”
“Sometimes we're at hotels, and I'll answer the phone. They'll say, 'Mr. Ripa, your breakfast is coming upstairs.' And I'm like, Is my father-in-law here? But, obviously, I'm proud either way - Ripa or Consuelos.”
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”
“Life is worth being lived, but not being discussed all the time.”
“Consider the challenge when a steady diet of spinach is on offer.”
“My kids were always my test audience. I'd take home the dailies and show them what we'd been filming that day.”

Source : Source: www.moviesonline.ca
“I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early ...”

Source : Harriet Martineau, Maria Weston Chapman (2010). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography”, p.435, Cambridge University Press
“One of the things that fascinated people about the twins, and one of the first things that comes to people's minds when they see Siamese Twins is: well, how do you have sex?”

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