"People just... disappear," he says. "The Earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. "Eerie." Kimball yawns, stretching. "Really eerie." "Ominous." I nod my agreement. "It's just"- he sights, exasperated- "futile."

-- Bret Easton Ellis

#Sight Quotes #Agreement Quotes #Eerie Quotes

“I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.”
“I love playing with words and texture.”
“I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.”
“Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.”

Source : Drew Houston's Commencement Address at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.mit.edu. June 7, 2013.
“Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest of the biosphere. ... We don't often tend to think about the social sciences (history, economics and politics) as subcategories of ecology. But since people are organisms, it is apparent that we must first understand the principles of ecology if we are to make sense of the events in the human world.”
“Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.”
“Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.”
“Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!”

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