Bekenstein Formula Quotes & Sayings

I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it. — Richard Holbrooke

Your whole life, you are told what is right and what is wrong. What you should do and what you should not do. What makes a good citizen and what makes a traitorous one. What happens, then, when you do everything you are not meant to do? Break down each and every barrier? Find out how good you are by how evil you can be? — Laura Lam

All of Dad's relationships ended exactly the same: subpoena, beep of a moving van backing up the driveway, pile of his clothes burning on the front lawn. — Christopher Titus

The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia. — Anna Wintour

If I stop making films, I will die. I can tell myself that one day I will stop living. But I cannot bear the fact that the day will come when I will no longer be making films. — Catherine Breillat

Living everyday in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage — Min Jin Lee

We shall be compelled to renounce the hope of finding philosophical proofs of religious beliefs ... Hence, once more, the value of philosophy must not depend upon any supposed body of definitely ascertainable knowledge to be acquired by those who study it. — Bertrand Russell

When you are in the present without thinking, you are for the first time spiritual. — Rajneesh

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship — Kinky Friedman

Master the season's spot-on style with polka dot sweatpants and a must-have denim trench. — Lubov Azria

Calculating people are contemptable. The reason for this is that calculation deals with loss and gain, and the loss and gain mind never stops. Death is considered loss and life is considered gain. Thus, death is something that such a person does not care for, and he is contemptable. Furthermore, scholars and their like are men who with wit and speech hide their own true cowardice and greed. People often misjudge this. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. — Charles-Victor De Bonstettin

Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea. — Francois Truffaut

I was the youngest kid on my street, the youngest comic in the clubs. I always felt like I was playing catch-up. I was very angry. — Jay Mohr