"The sun tells the best joke of a day full of them, setting so spectacularly that you can almost smell the tropical paradise lazing somewhere over this rim of endless, gray socialist towers. Miles of square windows explode orange, red, and purple, like a million TV sets broadcasting the apocalypse. Clouds unspool. The sky drains of birds."

-- Tod Wodicka

#Squares Quotes #Sky Quotes #Purple Quotes

“And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was just kind of a cappella, and I did it for this art piece I did where people could come and play music to go with a voice”
“The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.”
“There was a loophole in the law that said if I was working, I could be in the clubs as long as I didn't drink alcohol and had someone with me.”
“I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.”
“Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued that computation, such as doing long division, is not mathematics at all. Calculators can do the same thing and calculators can only calculate they cannot do mathematics.”

Source : Melvin Schwartz (2012). “Principles of Electrodynamics”, p.1, Courier Corporation
“Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!”
“I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor”
“The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to the peace and dignity of society, to inquire into the motives of such publications, and to distinguish between those which are meant for use and reformation, and with an eye solely to the public good, and those which are intended merely to delude and defame. To the latter description, it is impossible that any good government should afford protection and impunity.”

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