#aw

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. ↗

— Euclid

#laws #mathematical #nature #thoughts

You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#anymore #away #doubts #forward #go

I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#book #came #city #detroit #evanescent

I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to a lot of realism both in the language and in the structure of a book. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#been #book #both #cliches #done

It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#moments #must #painful #something #sometimes

We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#away #citizens #class citizens #constitution #decent

The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get a little Tiffany's paperweight with your name on it and the image of Joseph Pulitzer suspended in the crystal. When people see my 'Pulitzer' (I keep it in my sock drawer), they are pretty amazed at its meagerness. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#crystal #day #drawer #get #hand

To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump. ↗

— Geoffrey Boycott

#before #car #decide #drive #get

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#art #comes #does #draws #ether

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will. ↗

— Euripides

#acting #fortune #free #law #other