Jayanthi Kuruuthumpala Quotes

#1. I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and I just got stuck with Madonna.

Madonna Ciccone

#2. Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can't see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of seventy-five dollars per hour for it, without necessarily fixing anything.

Dave Barry

#3. I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters.

Rick Riordan

#4. If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#5. We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

Christopher Reeve

#6. To die, he thought, was to escape passion's grasp, but that was the last thing he wanted. Instead he wished to be seized by passion and pinioned, held in its palm forever - he could not imagine any other existence as embracing any real happiness.

David Guterson

#7. I ate a vendor's hot dog with sauerkraut (a combination whose tastiness still makes me tremble), walking fast in order to save as much of the twenty minutes of my lunch hour I had left for reading.

Nicholson Baker

#8. What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love.

Rainer Maria Rilke