Arietta Bryant > Arietta's Quotes

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

“Happy endings are still endings.”
― Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch

“Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought more wicked than they are.”
― Daniel Defoe, A system of magick

“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”
― Lawrence M. Krauss