Topologically Isomorphic Quotes & Sayings

I've recently noticed "as if for the first time" that when people pray they always look "upward" - i.e. perpendicular to whatever place they're standing - or kneeling or groveling. I deduce that they conceive of their "god" as topologically isomorphic to a huge donut, about a thousand miles wider than Earth. — Robert Anton Wilson

It needs courage to be afraid. — Michel De Montaigne

But there, in that remarkable room, surrounded by a laughing, rollicking, unseeing collection of London's brightest and wickedest, Pippa's knowledge of anatomy expanded.
It seemed there was such a thing as a broken heart. — Sarah MacLean

The environment changed with Martha Stewart and Enron. — Steve Martin

Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better. — Walter Darby Bannard

The Beauty drew near and the Youth heard her softly ringing, clear voice, every sound of which rent his heart with a sweet pain, "Dear Youth, do you know the price of my love?"
"Let it be the price of life!" exclaimed the Youth, "Let it lead even to the dark gates of death."
("The Poison Garden") — Valery Bryusov

I don't want nothing old but some old money. Buy me some young ideas. That's what I'm gonna do with it. — Moms Mabley