"Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders."

-- Greg Egan

#Islands Quotes #Self Quotes #Inventory Quotes

“I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us.”
“If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.”
“There comes a time in every man's life when he needs his own toilet.”
“I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.”

Source : "Dominic Monaghan on working with Wild Things' "beautiful, gentle spiders"". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. January 29, 2013.
“A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.”
“To what will love not stoop!”
“Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.”

Source : Dan Brown (2009). “Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”

Source : Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints (1966)

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