Quotations

"Love is a game that two can play and both win."

— Eva Gabor, Hungarian-American actress, born 1919

"Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once."

— Eva Gabor, Hungarian-American actress, born 1919

"I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back."

— Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress, born 1917

"You never really know a man until you have divorced him."

— Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress, born 1917

"Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended."

— Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress, born 1917

"I think the rhythm is like the spine of the piece. If you change that, then the body that forms around it is changed as well."

— Peter Gabriel, English musician, born 1950

"As you get older, some top notes drop off and bottom notes appear, which I quite like. You listen to Leonard Cohen or Johnny Cash, and you see the advantage of the lower end."

— Peter Gabriel, English musician, born 1950

"Studios always seem to be in basements without natural light and with black everything."

— Peter Gabriel, English musician, born 1950

"When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time."

— Lady Gaga, American recording artist, born 1986

"If you don't have any shadows you're not in the light."

— Lady Gaga, American recording artist, born 1986

"If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair; I would not lose hope of mercy, because I would trust in you, my God."

— Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic, born 1878

"Philosophy is written in this vast book, which continuously lies open before our eyes. But it cannot be understood unless we understand the language and recognize the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of triangles circles, geometrical figures. Without such means, it is impossible for us humans to understand a word of it, and to be without them is to wonder around in vain through a dark labyrinth."

— Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, born 1564

"Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe."

— Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, born 1564

"I stop writing the poem to fold the clothes. No matter who lives or who dies, I'm still a woman. I'll always have plenty to do. I bring the arms of his shirt together. Nothing can stop our tenderness. I'll get back to the poem. I'll get back to being a woman. But for now there's a shirt, a giant shirt in my hands, and somewhere a small girl standing next to her mother watching to see how it's done."

— Tess Gallagher, American poet, born 1943