"Moreover, nature's blocks had to be eternal-because nothing can come from nothing."

-- Jostein Gaarder

“Love and Other Theories challenged my assumptions, dared me to think differently and burrowed into my heart. A heart-achingly beautiful story about whether it is better to protect your heart or to take the biggest risk of all.”
“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.”
“I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.”
“When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”

Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.123, Macmillan
“... sometimes in life, you either laugh or you cry. And I prefer to laugh.”
“Descartes says: I think, and I am every moment I am thinking, because I have this inner awareness of myself. And I always thought there was something fishy about that. I don't think there's any privileged self-knowledge. Most of our attention is to things outside us.”
“I was pissed off about a lot of things...so much shitty rock â€™nâ€™ roll that angered me, and Pussy Galore was kicking against that. With the Blues Explosion, there was some of that, but now I was into celebrating it.”

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