"If you can't read your poem to a fruit vendor, a construction worker, a crossing guard, then your poem is worthless." — Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, born 1904
"Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living." — Jo Nesbo, Norwegian writer, born 1960
"A white lace curtain on the window was for me as important as a great work of art. This gossamer quality, the reflection, the form, the movement. I learned more about art from that than I did in school." — Louise Nevelson, American sculptor, born 1899
"It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money." — Louise Nevelson, American sculptor, born 1899
"I wanted to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it." — Paul Newman, American actor, born 1925
"The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films." — Paul Newman, American actor, born 1925
"I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out." — Paul Newman, American actor, born 1925
"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people." — Isaac Newton, English physicist, born 1642
"Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent." — Isaac Newton, English physicist, born 1642
"In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence." — Isaac Newton, English physicist, born 1642
"Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest." — Isaac Newton, English physicist, born 1642