Califano Lab Quotes & Sayings

Life and our love for others is a balancing act, I understand then; a dance between our instinct to be safe and hold fast, and our drive to flee, to run - from danger, toward new places to feed ourselves. — Deb Caletti

I feel like each possession is a battle and you never want to lose a battle. — Draymond Green

Kerouac lacks discipline, intelligence, honesty and a sense of the novel. His rhythms are erratic, his sense of character is nil, and he is as pretentious as a rich whore, sentimental as a lollypop. — Norman Mailer

Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view. — Daniel Tammet Thinking In Numbers How Maths Illuminates Our Lives

I don't understand these national awards, because half of those who sit in judgement over Indian films do not ... possess the competence to evaluate a film correctly. — Satyajit Ray

It could be our own private universe. — Robin Talley

Tantric Zen, and the people who practice it, of course, make some people feel extremely uncomfortable. — Frederick Lenz

What is perfect? From the Zen mind, perfection is not being there. — Frederick Lenz

Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children. — Ron Fournier

In Damascus:
poems become diaphanous
They're neither sensual
nor intellectual
they are what echo says
to echo ... — Mahmoud Darwish

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. — Kahlil Gibran

Man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future. — Ellen Sturgis Hooper