"What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day."

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Nice Quotes #Journey Quotes #Ignorant Quotes

“I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day”
“Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely. Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and broodmares, though they are the backbone of your church, and seeks to control his worshippers through guilt and fear.”

Source : P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2007). “Betrayed: A House of Night Novel”, p.13, Macmillan
“Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.”
“I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.”
“I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.”
“When people lose faith in the idea, you have to let them go, because they start to undermine it for everyone else.”
“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. Do you think, if you say the word "impossible" enough times, that difficult things will suddenly become easier for you?”
“I wasn't allowed to listen to a lot of music growing up. It wasn't until I started to make my gospel record when I was around 14 or 15 that I started to be exposed to more outside influences.”

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