In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.

Kurt Vonnegut

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

Christopher Hitchens

Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.

Johnny Depp

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Hermann Hesse

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

Ed Bradley

Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.

Orlando Bloom

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Virginia Woolf

I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.

Paris Hilton

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

Twyla Tharp

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Alexander Pope

It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

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