"Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work."

-- May Sarton

#Morning Quotes #Heart Quotes #Lunch Quotes

“For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a bell and the next she was calling him Simon. Who was Simon? He had no idea.”
“My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.”

Source : "Michael Shanks on Smallville and Hawkman!". Interview with Jenna Busch, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.”
“Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer . . . For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer's gods; and I consider it a scientific error to believe otherwise. But in point of epistemological footing, the physical objects and the gods differ only in degree and not in kind. Both sorts of entities enter our conceptions only as cultural posits.”

Source : Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.52, Harvard University Press
“God seems to reward us with good, delightful experiences when we move with joy through the less-than-delightful times.”
“Star Trek is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, in a career sense.”
“In hell, all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.”
“I started my career without fans.”

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