Jane Wilde Quotes

#1. I did not expect to survive that long. Yet two years had gone by and I was not that much worse. In fact, things were going rather well for me and I had gotten engaged to a very nice girl, Jane Wilde. But in order to get married, I needed a job, and in order to get a job, I needed a Ph.D.

Stephen Hawking

#2. The mystic's idea of deliberately stupefying and stultifying himself is an "abomination unto the Lord." This, by the way, does not conflict with the rules of Yoga. That kind of suppression is comparable to the restrictions in athletic training, or diet in sickness.

Aleister Crowley

#3. When will rappers & skanks realize God's not the only one who gets to judge them on their actions? We do too. It's called CONSEQUENCES.

Nils Parker

#4. Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.

Ringo Starr

#5. A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that ...

George Meredith

#6. I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.

Anna Quindlen

#7. A population of four million is not quantitatively but qualitatively different from an individual, because it involves systems of interaction among the individuals.

Paul Watzlawick

#8. In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.

Rudolf Arnheim

#9. A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Michael Marino

#10. I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.

Graham Greene

#11. I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse.

Amy Bloom