"Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been."

-- Dejan Stojanovic

“Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things.”
“I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.”
“Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.”

Source : "Viewpoints on String Theory: Edward Witten". "NOVA" interview, www.pbs.org. July 2003.
“Extremes are dangerous.”

Source : Jonathan Mayhew (1750). “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...”, p.55
“The sun never sets on a Hells Angels' patch.”
“Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.”

Source : Ivan Klíma (1994). “Waiting for the dark, waiting for the light”
“What do you know about being sad?' 'I know you don't need a reason.”
“You have to know writing styles well before you can copy them - and then incorporate parts of them into your own style.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com

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