"Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of."

-- Orson Scott Card

#Thinking Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Profanity Quotes

“I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.”
“as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves”
“If you have something to say, then say it. Express yourself and break the rules.”

Source : " Trent Reznor: 'a staleness has permeated rock music'", www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2014.
“The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from the latin mundus, meaning 'the world'. And the world is anything but dull: The world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.”
“Even theories must have foundations.”

Source : Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “THE VENUS SERIES - The Amtor of Venus Collection: Complete Edition (Pirates of Venus, Lost on Venus, Carson of Venus & Escape on Venus): From the Author of Tarzan of the Apes, Princess of Mars, Llana of Gathol, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, The Mucker, Pellucidar, The Moon Maid, Tarzan at the Earth's Core and many more”, p.36, e-artnow
“In the popular mind, if Hoyle is remembered it is as the prime mover of the discredited Steady State theory of the universe. "Everybody knows" that the rival Big Bang theory won the battle of the cosmologies, but few (not even astronomers) appreciate that the mathematical formalism of the now-favoured version of Big Bang, called inflation, is identical to Hoyle's version of the Steady State model.”
“I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking.”
“It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.”

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