Vonwiller Oscar Quotes & Sayings

Why do we do that? Why are the painful things always electromagnets? — Jonathan Safran Foer

From this new point of view, the universe I had inhabited became an object I could perceive in its entirety. It was a hypersphere embedded in a cloud of alternative states the sum of all possible quantum trajectories from the big bang to the decay of matter. "Reality" history as we had known or inferred it was only the most likely of these possible trajectories. There were countless others, real in a different sense: a vast but finite set of paths not taken, a ghostly forest of quantum alternatives, the shores of an unknown sea. — Robert Charles Wilson

We've worn our words to death,
when now I say: my love,
nothing happens, absolutely nothing.
And yet, before the words were spent,
I'm certain
that everything trembled
at the mere murmur of your name
in the silence of my heart.
Now we have nothing to give.
There is nothing within you
that asks me for water.
The past is useless as a rag.
And I've told you already: the words are spent.
Good-bye. — Eugenio De Andrade

Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober. — Harry Crews

Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved. — Bobby Flay

The recession is over. This phrase has been used twice a year since 1973 by government leaders throughout the West. Its meaning is unclear. See: Depression. — John Ralston Saul

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason. — Robert South