"At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that fact doesn't prevent science from proving that the earth as a whole is spherical. No one nowadays denies it. Well...we are still at the stage of believing that life itself is flat, the distance from birth to death. Yet the probability is that life, too, is spherical and much more extensive and capacious than the hemisphere we know."

-- Vincent Van Gogh

#Distance Quotes #Believe Quotes #Paris Quotes

“You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit you, you shouldn't be limited by it.”
“I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known.”

Source : John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.250, Macmillan
“The older I get, the more relaxed I am.”
“That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying.”
“Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”

Source : "We could be heroes: an election-year letter" by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2012.
“Short on glamour and long on tragedy.”

Source : Quentin James Reynolds (1963). “By Quentin Reynolds”
“Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.”

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