All Quotes

"I really don’t care. I think Iran is a very badly defeated country. They’re running on fumes."

"Fifa is focused on ensuring fair access to our game for existing and prospective fans. As a not-for-profit organisation, the revenue Fifa generates from the World Cup is reinvested to fuel the growth of the game - men, women, youth - throughout Fifa's 211 member associations globally"

"Right now, we’re expecting the Iranian team to come. I think it’s a great opportunity for the Iranian diaspora here in the United States of America to be able to celebrate their country."

"The golden days of Italian football are well and truly gone."

"He had the faculty of seizing upon the thoughts rather than the words of the authors he consulted, and thus making them a portion of his own mind. Perhaps, hardly a priest in England was more deeply versed in ascetical and mystical theology, or had had more experience in the operations of grace in souls."

"I myself have made love only once in my life; that was eleven years ago, and after that I didn't love anyone for a minute, even though I constantly tried to create illusions for myself."

"To this day I'm not sure if there's any difference between physics and algebra and math and chemistry, and I'll never know. I don't know if forty-nine can even be divided by any number; If by some miracle it succeeds, it won't be for me."

"I want you to live. Think of her, Mike. Think of her, Mike. Think about her cunt; think about her mouth and breasts, Mike. It's not true what she told you. She was always fine with you, Mike. Mike, you know me and you know I don't lie. Mike, you have to believe me again. Mike, do you remember how wet she is every time you enter her? And how does her belly tighten? Mike, why don't you believe me? But there was no one left to believe him; He kicked his legs apart and kicked him in the crotch until he had no strength left."

"I don't trust anyone who has a pussy and knows the value of money."

"They lay tired of love and heat, they were both young and pretty."

"On Saturday, the city center looks the same as on any other day of the week. There are just more drunk people; in pubs and bars, buses and gates - the smell of digested alcohol hangs everywhere. On Saturday, the city loses its hard-working face - on Saturday, the city has a drunken face."

"Are you playing dad and mom? Enjoy!"

"And that's why they probably invented marriage and the oath of fidelity, because they knew that nothing in the world fits together as badly as a man and a woman."

"Thank God I'm just alcoholic. This is the only thing that gives any guarantee; If anyone thinks anything of me, it's only this."

"When someone starts stomping on your toes for the first time, you think it's not true, and then you're surprised that a person can do such a thing to another person. But you don't really have time to think about it, because they are urinating on your face and you again think that it's not true, that this man straddled over you has the same heart, kidneys and the same shame."

"But I wonder why I was wandering around like that. Instead of celebrating love, instead of gushing about it, I was so nervous because I thought that I would just make it, that I would always be young, that Marek would always be young, that the world would wait for us. And nothing waited and the world was rushing at a dizzying pace."

"We develop a for computing sums over random surfaces which arise in all problems containing (like , three-dimensional etc.). These sums are reduced to the exactly solvable quantum theory of the two-dimensional Liouville lagrangian. At D = 26 the string dynamics is that of harmonic oscillators as was predicted earlier by dual theorists, otherwise it is described by the nonlinear integrable theory."

"We have no better way of describing elementary particles than quantum field theory. A quantum field in general is an assembly of an infinite number of interacting harmonic oscillators. Excitations of such oscillators are associated with particles. The special importance of the harmonic oscillator follows from the fact that its excitation spectrum is additive, i.e. if E1 and E2 are energy levels above the ground state then E1 + E2 will be an energy level as well. It is precisely this property that we expect to be true for a system of elementary particles."

"can be understood in a very simple way by means of the Peierls argument. Namely, while the energy of the string is proportional to its length, the entropy of it also grows linearly (since the number of random curves grows exponentially with their lengths). Thus at a certain temperature the entropy takes over and infinitely long strings begin to dominate. That means liberation."

"Based at Princeton University, Polyakov was chosen from a shortlist of three, which included string theorist of the and a trio of researchers – of the , of the and of Stanford University. The shortlist and ultimate winner were chosen by a panel comprising nine physicists – seven of whom are string theorists and one a topological-insulator pioneer. Not surprisingly, string-theory naysayer of Columbia University is not pleased. “The [ceremony] was largely a string theory hype-fest…,” he wrote on his blog . Meanwhile in a very different dimension of the , Lubos Motl is elated and writes “Sasha Polyakov is a giant because he is a string-theory pioneer and because he has cracked many phenomena in gauge theories.” Motl also makes a confession of sorts about what he discovered while alone in Polyakov’s office…"

"Alexander Polyakov, a now at Princeton University, caught a glimpse of the future of in 1981. A range of mysteries, from the wiggling of strings to the binding of s into s, demanded a new mathematical tool whose silhouette he could just make out. ... In his paper he sketched out a formula that roughly described how to calculate averages of a wildly chaotic type of surface, the “.” His work brought physicists into a new mathematical arena, one essential for unlocking the behavior of theoretical objects called strings and building a simplified model of quantum gravity. Years of toil would lead Polyakov to breakthrough solutions for other theories in physics, but he never fully understood the mathematics behind the Liouville field. Over the last seven years, however, a group of mathematicians has done what many researchers thought impossible. In a trilogy of landmark publications, they have recast Polyakov’s formula using fully rigorous mathematical language and proved that the Liouville field flawlessly models the phenomena Polyakov thought it would."

"Long day at work! Best thing about my job is that I can have different ones in one day!"

"I wish that during APEC they would show what our country really is like. Instead of hiding things and making going to work impossible."

"“Pero (But) for me, in life you always have to learn. And the more you learn, the more you grow. For me, that’s innovation.”"

"So I don't want to wait too long but I don't want to do it right away."

"“Kasi friends kami (Because we're friends), so there’s no competition naman between friends.”"

"“Kasi ako (Because for me), I would not have my portrait in my house.”"

"It is imperative that we put an end to domestic violence and view women as human beings who deserve love and respect. Our country will not be able to achieve genuine sustainable development if only half the population is working at full capacity or is benefitting from economic progress."

"Never expect anything, but plan for everything."

"When it comes to planning, I'm very nurturing, like a mother."

"Change cannot be just the responsibility of the people who need it most. They need the support of everyone, especially those of the highest power, if we are to see true change."

"I’ve embarked on a fresh new chapter and I’m finally taking control of my life, pursuing dreams that I’ve always had a hold off on. It’s exciting, it’s terrifying, it’s anxiety-filled, and it’s confusing. But what I know for sure is that for the first time, I’m finally living my life for me."

"My heart bleeds for all the people who cannot afford not to go out and work. They literally have to choose between dying of starvation or dying of covid."

"Calling someone your best friend doesn't necessarily mean you are friend-zoning them."

"In the Philippines the only way to become a big star really — if you're not a singer, if you're an actor — is to be in a love team. It becomes this whole thing where your career and your personal life — the line between the two gets blurred. People just don’t know what reality is."

"When you're a kid, that's just what you do. You believe anything that an adult says because you think that they have their best interest for you."

"People told me they loved me, but then they would do the complete opposite of what you do when you love someone. So that’s why words don’t really mean anything to me. It’s all about action."

"Now that I had a taste of what collaborating feels like and being empowered to be creative and think outside the box, it's like I can't unsee it anymore, and that's the only way I wish to work."

"I'm always grateful, thankful, and I am blessed to everybody that came into my life."

"It should be an equal amount of time and effort and pushing for the same narrative and the same vision or values while also boosting up your individual brand, I think that's the way collaboration should be."

"I really wanna become an actress, a world-class actress."

"My goal is to become my own person because for so many years, I was in a love team. I never was able to build up my own personal branding. I really wanna do with my career and personally finding out what excites me, what fuels my passion."

"Richard understood his own reign through the distorting lens of the court he made for himself; he could not understand why the regality he regarded as his right was denied to him on the broader stage."

"Richard’s will was sovereign, and yet it could not be trusted not to change. He had demonstrated that he would erase history, change the statutes of the realm, rather than remit his desires."

"The court was by definition in place of extreme instability, of faction and favourites, in which men could rise and fall as they pleased or displeased of the king. For the nation to function at large, this could not be the case. The noble men of the realm needed the security of their patrimony, their status and their rights; for them to support the king they needed to know that he would support the social structure which maintained them all. Richard had demonstrated, fatally, that everything was personal to him."

"Here and throughout the reign, the tendency was to focus criticism on particular individuals charged with corruption, rather than to address the structures which made such corruption endemic."

"The long story of the medieval cult of chivalry, from its emergence in the twelfth century to its belated glories in the court of the young Henry VIII, is punctuated by the ongoing conflict between knighthood’s idealistic claims to virtue and divine favour, and the Church’s condemnation of all chivalric values as empty and worthless."

"This kind of moral analysis is characteristic of medieval thought: the aim is to condemn where condemnation is due, but to salvage from the criticism the ideals which animate and support society."

"The government’s reassertion of control over England in the aftermath demonstrated a merciless insistence on the social structure, which tied all into the hierarchy, supporting the king at the top. It was part of Richard’s failure that he did not understand, or would not accept, his throne’s dependence on the stability of that structure."

"It took a particular genius and a great deal of luck to make war pay, and Richard had neither."