It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.

Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We talked about her work as a microbiologist and the behaviour of the epithingalingie under the influence of cholesterol. She's fascinated by cholesterol. Says it's very beautiful: bright yellow. She says Ang is wholly uninterested. He has no idea what she does.I check this out for myself. 'What does Jane do?' I ask.'Science,' he says vaguely.

Emma Thompson

The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.

Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antpro

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

Jerry Brown

I like making pies. I have a bunch of fruit trees in my backyard. My loquat tree sprouted, and I like making loquat pie. They're really hard to peel and everything, and it took me forever, but they make the best pies. They're amazing.

Kristen Stewart

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Beauty vanishes like a vapor, Preach the men of musty morals.

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spoff

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection

Eckhart Tolle, Practicing The Po

The last act is tragic, however happy all the rest of the play is; at the last a little earth is thrown upon our head, and that is the end for ever.

Blaise Pascal

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

Nikki Giovanni

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Jean-Luc Godard

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Accept and express your underlying certitude, and it shall be worldwide sagacity.

Ogwo David Emenike