"We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!"

-- Charles Darwin

#Nature Quotes #Animal Quotes #Agency Quotes

“The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.”
“It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements.”
“I like the feeling that anything, anything, could happen.”

Source : Marsha Qualey (2007). “Just Like That”, Puffin
“The concentration of all seven behind the stroke should be so strong that you know by feel when that stroke has varied his style or rating without the cox announcing it.”
“America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.”
“This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think.”
“The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.”

Source : Alan Ayckbourn (2015). “The Crafty Art of Playmaking”, p.11, Macmillan
“I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.”

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