Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.

Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

I miei silenzi erano scudi contro la realtà dietro i quali nascondevano la verità.

I never thought that I could still love again until i met you. Will you be just a dream?

Many a mess, but greater the grace of mercy.

The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

If you can't be good, be good at it!

Because there are 7 billion 47 million people on the planet And I have the audacity to think I matter I know it's a lie but I prefer it to the alternative

Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett are very good actresses.

I've never seen most of the fashion reality shows. The only one I've seen is 'Project Runway,' which is great, but I don't watch television.