Roake Short Quotes & Sayings

What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its great mathematical beauty. This is a quality which cannot be defined, any more than beauty in art can be defined, but which people who study mathematics usually have no difficulty in appreciating. — Paul Dirac

[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we've stopped trying to do on a society-wide one. — Emily Matchar

I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading. — Amy Bloom

We have our own thoughts, and if we want others to know them, we must tell them. — Henry Cloud

You can lay your strategies as carefully as you like, but women will undo them at a stroke. — Salman Rushdie

I think there are other alternatives there than hitting a child, striking the child. — Sean Hannity

'Commonwealth' is not a word I ever used growing up in Colombo. There, in the late 1950s, it would have meant little more than New Zealand lamb and Anchor butter at the cold stores. — Romesh Gunesekera

Last will never be more important than commitment. Commitment stacks the odds of a successful relationship in my favor. — Gena Showalter

Yesterday morning Facebook was temporarily offline, leaving millions of workers unable to do anything except their jobs. — Jay Leno