Meghana

music, dance, travel, ancient Greece, cancer research, Indian jewelry, fabulous shoes

Favorite Quotes:

"You can give a cat a bowl of milk. But if you teach it how to milk a cow, it can get its own bowl!" - Tim, my erudite boyfriend

"Alligators are kinda like dinosaurs. But didn't they say dinosaurs evolved into birds? Maybe that's why alligators taste like chicken." - Tim, my scholarly boyfriend

"It is hard to sit in silence, to watch ones youth wash away. New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse, and I can only dream that one day she will recapture her glory." - Harry Connick Jr

"I am the feminine qualities: fame, beauty, perfect speech, memory, intelligence, loyalty, and forgiveness." - Bhagavad Gita 10:34

"Wine is Sunlight held together by Water." - Galileo

"Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation." - Joseph Campbell

"Having an encounter with a prominent gay porn star is much like having a brush with death; it really makes you think and take stock of what’s important in your life." - Kirk Soodhalter

"You Americans have done so many great things with peanuts!" - MolGen recruit from Israel

"You have nothing better to offer. I want goats." - Tim, my 3rd world boyfriend, on how my PhD doesn't mean I don't need a dowry

"A sport without black people ain't a sport. That's just a game! That's like me saying, 'Ooh, I got the highest SAT in the whole world, but no Asians took the test.'" - Chris Rock on Babe Ruth's record in pre-integrated baseball, courtesy of Mary

"Anybody who wants to make a revolution shouldn't grab a gun. Just go and start working, like we do, to change the world by using science and technology." - Stanford R. Ovshinksy, Energy Conversion Devices, Inc.

"I know I'm brown. But I'm from India. I'm tech support/cardiologist brown (shoutout). Not dishwasher/Los Angeles parking attendant brown. And I say that with no disrespect." - Aasif Mandvi, The Daily Show, about the new immigration bill

"Turned on by math and accepting a challenge to determine the dimensions of Dante's Inferno, [Galileo] deduced that Dante's Lucifer was 2,000 arm-lengths long." - Liza Lentini, Discover magazine

"A people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." - James Madison, about citizens of a democracy

MK: I hope we're not that couple that has separate things in the fridge! Even if you won't eat my ice cream and chips, I'm willing to share, so I don't need M stickers. What would you put T stickers on?
TH: Hmm, there's nothing I want to hoard that much that I wouldn't be willing to share. I guess the only thing I would put a T sticker on is you!

"Truth is by nature self-evident, as soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow- mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain

"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life." - Krishnamurti