Pearlstein Residence Quotes

#1. There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#2. Did you know studies show that eighty percent of women have faked orgasm? And fifty percent admit to doing it on a regular basis?

Chloe Cole

#3. The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a quaternary code with four symbols. The machine code of the genes is uncannily computerlike.

Richard Dawkins

#4. In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.

Hannibal Buress

#5. Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.

Karen DeCrow

#6. Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.

Elie Wiesel

#7. Sometimes your heart is fullest when you know it's breaking. Sometimes, the sky has to darken so the stars can shine brightest. Sometimes your soul is happiest when the worst possible thing in your life has come to pass. Because there is nothing left to hold on to, and fear grows wings to fly.

Baylie Karperien