"What fraction of the twinkling lights you see at night have Earths?"

-- Geoffrey Marcy

#Night Quotes #Earth Quotes

“Right now in my middle years, I'm getting to enjoy a resurgence of my own creativity, which I'm fully embracing and enjoying.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“We could be a possibility”
“My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.”

Source : "Royal Ballet Live: Wayne Mcgregor on Dance, the White Stripes and the Web". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2012.
“At some level it's still hard for me to admit that my father died. I can talk about it and around it, but those two words. 'He died.' What can that possibly mean? That I won't get to hear his voice again?”

Source : Jennifer Grant (2011). “Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant”, p.4, Knopf
“I told him what my dad had said. That got him laughing and as we pulled into the school parking lot, even the sight of Rafe waiting for me only made him roll his eyes. We got out. I glanced at Daniel. He sighed. "Go on." "You sound like you're giving a five-year-old permission to play with an unsuitable friend." "If the shoe fits..." I flipped him off. "Watch it or I won't marry you," he said. "Truck of no truck." I laughed and jogged over to Rafe. "Did he just say...?" Rafe began.”
“I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out and chop the roots up.”
“All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.”
“I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.”

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