Alecsa Quotes & Sayings

Cecile was teaching in Berkeley and I was [at Livermore]. He probably had, could have had, some influence on Teller, [for] Teller was quite generous in allowing me one whole semester off to be at Berkeley to work on something and also a semester off at the Institute for Advanced Study. Then I won the Gravity Research Foundation first prize. — Bryce S. DeWitt

I asked Mincha if he would like to be reincarnated as the beautiful scarlet minivet. Mincha paused for a moment and then pointed out how many insects a minivet consumes in its lifetime. "Killing other creatures causes pain in the world. So from a Buddhist perspective, we must say that the minivet is not to be envied." Besides, he related, there are 500 rebirths separating birds and humans, so a bird rebirth would be a big setback from enlightenment. Back — Eric Dinerstein

You must never check for a person's pulse using your thumb, or you'll feel your own heartbeat. Actually, I plan on doing that if I'm the one who's here when Ruth dies. I plan on giving her my heartbeat before I let her go. — Elizabeth Berg

I would just love to do something where I'd have to train and work really hard and do one of those types of action movies, which a lot of women are doing now. — Christina Milian

Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. — Irwin Shaw

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer. — K.d. Lang

You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position. — Kenneth Lay

The poets, by which I mean all artists, are finally the only people that know the truth about us. Soldiers don't, statesmen don't, priests don't, union leaders don't ... only the poets. — James Baldwin

Stanley Hauerwas is correct that Judaism insists on the bearing of children because it is essential to Jewish continuity. But to end the matter there is to miss an essential point: if we are to learn to love others, Judaism says, we must begin by loving those who are closest to us. — Meir Soloveichik

I will not go on a blind date. — Jordana Brewster

You have to figure that there is something seriously wrong with somebody who wants to enter a profession that deals with whether people are screwing enough. Dealing with spirits, spooks, and demons almost seemed normal. — Tom Upton

The shot is Kahlua, Irish Cream and whipped cream on top. — Anonymous

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me. — Kary Mullis

Only writing could soak up his loneliness and pain. Written words could tell him who he was. — Don DeLillo

So Rise now to the Occasion that is Life — Septem Nuntius