“It wasn't that she was shallow, exactly, but everyone knows, looks are important for media work...”
Source: My Husband's Wives
“Yo mama so ugly, when she looked out the window, she got arrested for mooning”
“He was supposed to break her heart.
She wasn't supposed to break his.”
Source: Legendary
“He was "a magician, a magician in the sense that he took what was given and simply forced the conclusions logically out of it, whether it was algebra, geometry, or whatever. He had some way of forcing out the results that made him different from the rest of the people." Israel Halperin about von Neumann”
Source: Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory: From Chess to Social Science, 1900–1960
“The very small quantum world, it seems, is a mixture of possibilities. The quantum fields to which all particles belong are the sum of these possibilities and, somehow, one possibility is chosen out of all the existing ones just by seeing it, just by the very act of detecting it, whenever one tries to probe a particle's nature. Nobody knows why or how this happens.”
Source: The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond
“I gazed up at the stars as I waited. They twinkled down at me, like a huge handful of diamonds someone had coated in glue and thrown on the ceiling.”
Source: One Day You'll Find Me
“When the birds were famished,
They could be seen day and night,
The minute they gathered enough crumbs,
The hungry birds took flight.”
“Well, that brings us to the point: There is only one way to protect ourselves from the deadly diseases that stalk the human family. It is abstinence before marriage, then marriage and mutual fidelity for life to an uninfected partner.”
Source: Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
“When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret.”
Source: Mimi of the Nowhere
“I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.”