"Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one. They can build buildings, parks, signs, as well as things that do not exist in Reality, such as vast hovering overhead light shows and special neighborhoods where the rules of three-dimensional spacetime are ignored."

-- Neal Stephenson

#Reality Quotes #Light Quotes #Special Quotes

“Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it'.”
“No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes”
“I had an idyllic childhood and when my parents bought me a Punch and Judy Show and a ventriloquist's dummy, I'd perform anywhere, anytime. My parents were wonderful when I told them I wanted to be an entertainer.”

Source : "Dodd's Bolton Bonus". www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk. February 15, 2007.
“Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.”

Source : Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2012). “The Physiology of Taste”, p.39, Courier Corporation
“An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.”
“I need a focus group like I need a hole in my head.”

Source : Source: bookpage.com
“Lana says J.P. makes Matt Damon from the Bourne movies look like Oliver from Hannah Montana”
“My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was the paramount importance of the "West" epitomized by Cincinnati.”

Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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