Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.

O yellow eye,let me be sick with your heat,let me be feverish and frowning.

Anne Sexton

You're only as good as your last haircut.

Fran Lebowitz

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton Wilder

A healthy outside starts from the inside.

Robert Urich

Friendship is a ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

Ambrose Bierce

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

Lee Iacocca

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

Thomas Aquinas

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

Kurt Vonnegut

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Elizabeth Bowen

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

Joan Rivers

Bullying is never fun, it's a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.

Raini Rodriguez

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

Emily Bronte