It is conventional to call monster any blending of dissonant elements. I call monster every original inexhaustible beauty.

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

Karl Lagerfeld

Life has a funny way of turning you into the one thing you don't want to be.

Jonathan Levine

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

Cate Blanchett

I think serial monogamy says it all.

Tracey Ullman

I've always said that kids should enhance your life, not hinder your life, so I just try to make the most out of being with my kids. You have to have a life for yourself somewhere in the mix of being a wife and mum.

Melanie Brown

To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.

Johnson

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

LouisFerdinand Celine

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.

James C. Maxwell

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

Oscar Wilde