We must... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that can be filled with objects - it is a pure theory of manifolds.

The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.

Steve Albini

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

S. M. Frazier

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Voltaire

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

Harry Dean Stanton

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Alice Walker

I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

Little Richard

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Washington Irving

The reliance on property is...the want of self-reliance. Men measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property...(Essays)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

Regina King

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

Jodi Picoult