Poetry always runs away from you – its very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it. – Abbas Kiarostami
By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. – Steven Chu
If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. Thats how fragile our consciousness is. – Robin Gibb
Some in my party threaten to send a message that they dont know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that theyre not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom. – Joe Lieberman
