"I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto."

-- Kiefer Sutherland

#Growing Up Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.”
“Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs”
“Why, did you know that if a beaver two feet long with a tail a foot and a half long can build a dam twelve feet high and six feet wide in two days, all you would need to build Boulder Dam is a beaver sixty-eight feet long with a fifty-one-foot tail?" "Where would you find a beaver that big?" grumbled the Humbug as his pencil point snapped. "I'm sure I don't know," he replied, "but if you did, you'd certainly know what to do with him.”

Source : Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.175, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.”
“Early in life, when I first saw waterlilies on the ripples of a lake, I didn't think they were flowers which grew from the water, but rather flowers which were mirrored from the shore into the lake. So many flowers grow in the silent waters of our souls, and they unfold their petals over the glaze of our consciousness: they grow from within us, but we think them reflections from the external world.”
“I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.”
“While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.”

Source : Jack Vance (2007). “The Jack Vance Treasury”, Subterranean
“Just when I thought life was over you came into my life.”

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