“Our brains have evolved to get us out of the rain, find where the berries are, and keep us from getting killed. Our brains did not evolve to help us grasp really large numbers or to look at things in a hundred thousand dimensions.”

— Ronald L. Graham

“If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.”

— Victor Cousins

Hah! This guy is a total genius…

— Christoph Niemann

“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”

— John Keating (Robin Williams) in Dead Poets Society (1989)

“In Beverly Hills, they don’t throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.”

— Woody Allen

“I do understand that singing about peace and love right now will lead to a certain f^$%-off factor.”

— Bono

“I find I’m so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.”

Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding (Morgan Freeman) in The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”

— Roger ‘Verbal’ Kint (Kevin Spacey) in The Usual Suspects (1995)

“Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don’t know why I am more interested in women, because I don’t go to any psychiatrists, and I don’t want to know why.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

*French Fries* vs. *Home Fries*

— Christoph Niemann