Science packages theory, places it on a throne, and honors and protects it much like a queen. Engineers make the queen come down from the throne and scrub the floor. And if she doesn't work, we fire her.

The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.

Swami Brahmanada

I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!

Christina Westover

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

Alice Miller

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

Ralph Marston

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Marcus Valerius Martial

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

Italo Calvino

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

Charlize Theron

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

Jeff Bezos

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

Moli

All things are ready, if our mind be so.

William Shakespeare

Keeping up the fiction. You have to keep it up, sometimes, no matter how you feel.

Stephen King