Sara Teasdale Quotes
American - Author August 8, 1884 - January 29, 1933


I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Sara Teasdale

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
Sara Teasdale

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
Sara Teasdale

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
Sara Teasdale

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
Sara Teasdale

Life is but thought.
Sara Teasdale

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
Sara Teasdale

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
Sara Teasdale

There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.
Sara Teasdale

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
Sara Teasdale

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
Sara Teasdale

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
Sara Teasdale

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
Sara Teasdale

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.
Sara Teasdale

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.
Sara Teasdale

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
Sara Teasdale



Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes
American - Author August 8, 1896 - December 14, 1953

We need above all, I think, a certain remoteness from urban confusion.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

A part of the placidity of the South comes from the sense of well-being that follows the heart-and-body-warming consumption of breads fresh from the oven. We serve cold baker's bread to our enemies, trusting that they will never impose on our hospitality again.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted sense of liberation. It was not the Negro who became free, but I.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings


Paul Dirac Quotes
British - Physicist August 8, 1902 - October 20, 1984


God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
Paul Dirac

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
Paul Dirac

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.
Paul Dirac

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.
Paul Dirac

The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.
Paul Dirac

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.
Paul Dirac

There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.
Paul Dirac

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.
Paul Dirac

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Paul Dirac

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.
Paul Dirac


Roger Penrose Quotes
English - Physicist Born: August 8, 1931


My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.
Roger Penrose

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
Roger Penrose

The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself.
Roger Penrose

And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.
Roger Penrose

There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance.
Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.
Roger Penrose

This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.
Roger Penrose

As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.
Roger Penrose

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.
Roger Penrose

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.
Roger Penrose

Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.
Roger Penrose

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.
Roger Penrose

Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.
Roger Penrose

I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.
Roger Penrose

I was indeed very slow as a youngster.
Roger Penrose

The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.
Roger Penrose

In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature.
Roger Penrose

Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has.
Roger Penrose

So what I'm saying is why don't we think about changing Schrodinger's equation at some level when masses become too big at the level that you might have to worry about Einstein's general relativity.
Roger Penrose

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.
Roger Penrose

Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.
Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that the universe is simply there, and it runs along - it's a bit as though it just sort of computes, and we happen by accident to find ourselves in this thing. I don't think that's a very fruitful or helpful way of looking at the universe.
Roger Penrose


Dustin Hoffman Quotes
American - Actor Born: August 8, 1937


I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.
Dustin Hoffman

The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.
Dustin Hoffman

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Dustin Hoffman

Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.
Dustin Hoffman

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.
Dustin Hoffman

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
Dustin Hoffman

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.
Dustin Hoffman

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.
Dustin Hoffman

Blame is for God and small children.
Dustin Hoffman

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.
Dustin Hoffman

Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.
Dustin Hoffman

I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.
Dustin Hoffman

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?
Dustin Hoffman

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.
Dustin Hoffman

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.
Dustin Hoffman

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.
Dustin Hoffman

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.
Dustin Hoffman

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.
Dustin Hoffman

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.
Dustin Hoffman

And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise.
Dustin Hoffman

I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed.
Dustin Hoffman

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.
Dustin Hoffman

Well this is aptly called a junket, for both of us. I have never been to a house of prostitution, but I understand that you get in more than seven minutes.
Dustin Hoffman

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.
Dustin Hoffman