Centura Quotes & Sayings

String theory?[pause] It closed the conceptual gulp between relativity and quantum mechanics. It postulates that subatomic particles are not points, but strings, about one planck length long. The rate at which strings vibrate can generate the properties of all known particles. Huh? How did I know that? — Willie Garson

Your relationships can only be as healthy as you are. — Neil Clark Warren

Alvin didn't cry, didn't curse, didn't holler ... He was too far gone to roar on that day or even to crack. Only I did ... Only I cracked, alone, later in the one place in our house where I knew I could go to be apart from the living and all that they cannot not do. — Philip Roth

Even today, I notice that some of my pieces are explicitly tonal; there are actually tonics and dominants. And then there are pieces that are not tonal. I tend to think that there's a dichotomy that has to do with the way pitches are structured. — Paul Lansky

To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it. — Madame De Stael

It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money. — Ad Reinhardt

I wrote about ... my childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god was a rabbit. — Sarah Winman

We tell rags-to-riches stories because we find something captivating in the idea of a lone hero battling overwhelming odds. — Malcolm Gladwell

I'm like a grenade made of ceramic -solid and dense and cold- but still fragile. — Jasmine Warga

Contemplating from the confines of a desk the reality of death is worthwhile, but only moderately enriching. Too often do I resort to it; rarely do I get with death in the ring. — Richard Ronald Allan