Somnos Art Quotes & Sayings

General relativity is in the old Newtonian framework where you predict what will happen, not the probability of what will happen. And putting together the probabilities of quantum mechanics with the certainty of general relativity, that's been the big challenge and that's why we have been excited about string theory, as it's one of the only approaches that can put it together. — Brian Greene

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation. — Madeleine Albright

That movements of an extreme complexity were taking place seemed certain, and yet what a simple thing it seemed, that vast yellow light sailing slowly behind my bars and which little by little the dense wall devoured, and finally eclipsed. And now its tranquil course was written on the walls, a radiance scored with shadow, then a brief quivering of leaves, if they were leaves, then that too went out, leaving me in the dark. How — Samuel Beckett

The only consistent people are the dead — Aldous Huxley

If faces were different when lit from above or below
what was a face? What was anything? — William Golding

Using only nonnarrative portions of the Bible to interpret narrative is not only disrespectful to the narrative portions but also suggests a misguided approach to nonnarrative parts of the Bible. — Craig S. Keener

I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to perceive women. The beauty of women, how a woman should act or behave. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft-spoken and loud, all at once. There is something mind-controlling about the way we're taught to view women. My work, both visually and musically, is a rejection of all those things. — Lady Gaga

I graduated first in my class from alibi school. — Jeffrey McDaniel

How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental? — A.S. King

Heaven, for the Presbyterians, must resemble a banking establishment, with each soul tagged and docketed, and placed in the appropriate pigeonhole. — Margaret Atwood

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning. — Paulo Freire

He died angry," Chalmers said, "because I didn't believe him. Even in death he is emphatic and imperious. — Erik Larson

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on. — Richard Ford