"Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, Iâ€™m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else."

-- Diane Ackerman

#Knees Quotes #Wonder Quotes #Ricochet Quotes

“As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.”

Source : Jeremy Bentham, Etienne Dumont (1840). “Theory of Legislation”, p.152
“Think of what would happen to us... if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.”

Source : Thomas Lansing Masson (1922). “Our American Humorists”
“You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.”

Source : Michael Connelly (2012). “The Black Echo”, p.69, Hachette UK
“I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.”
“I thought that the United Nations is a creature of the five super-powers who were given veto powers. I don't like veto powers at all.”

Source : "Interview with Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad". Interview with Sue Onslow, commonwealth-oral-history-project.blogs.sas.ac.uk. February 11, 2015.
“Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.”
“A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.”
“Even today, I am still very child-like while designing. It's a bit like Christmas - each of your designs you create is like unravelling your presents.”

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