"You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?"

-- Jerry Spinelli

#Stupid Quotes #Space Quotes #Saws Quotes

“My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.”
“Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.”
“No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.”
“For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.”
“The worst of the action films are the ones where everything is one shout from beginning to finish. And there's no differentiation between beats, like small or big, or quiet or expansive. It's all just one loud shout.”
“[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral...”
“The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?”
“The only immortality we know of is our children, and in that unfinished story of the acts of lives, which, forever expanding, like waves from a pebble in the lake, have their immortality in the acts of future generations.”

Source : Raymond Bernard Cattell (1972). “A new morality from science: beyondism”, Pergamon

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