Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
You Can Call Me Al
Song lyrics, Graceland (1986)
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
You Can Call Me Al
Song lyrics, Graceland (1986)
“Old answers never perfectly suit new questions, except in the most formal, logical circumstances.”
Marvin Minsky (1927–2016) American cognitive scientist
K-Linesː A Theory of Memory (1980)
“I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?”
William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels
Source: City of Fallen Angels
Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer
Source: Tiger Lily
“Strange secrets are let out by Death
Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.”
Part 2, line 112.
Paracelsus (1835)
David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
As quoted in The Making of Dune (1984) by Ed Naha, p. 213
“No one ever perfectly loved God who did not perfectly love some of his creatures in this world.”
Marguerite de Navarre book Heptaméron
Second Day, Novel XIX (trans. W. K. Kelly)
Variant translation by Samuel Putnam in Marguerite of Navarre (1935), p. 53:
Never shall a man attain to the perfect love of God who has not loved to perfection some creature in this world.
L'Heptaméron (1558)