"No one born in the 1950s took much interest in my generation, and all we've done is try to fix it by talking to the people who came after us. I don't hang out with anyone who is 10 years older than I am, but I hang out with a lot of people who are 10 years younger."

-- Liam Gillick

#Talking Quotes #Years Quotes #People Quotes

“In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley walking down the streets of Marysville, I'm going to punch him right in the face.”
“So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.”
“In life, I'd much rather have people laughing at me than booing me.”
“More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.”

Source : Glen Cook (2008). “The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company”, p.311, Macmillan
“Road racing imitates life, the way it would be without the corruptive influence of civilization. When you see an enemy lying on the ground, whatâ€™s your first reaction? To help him to his feet. In road racing, you kick him to death”

Source : Tim Krabbé, Tim Krabbe, Sam Garrett (2003). “The Rider”, p.69, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Listen, someone's screaming in agony- fortunately I speak it fluently”
“It would not be long ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse, with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land, making, in fact, one neighborhood of the whole country.”
“In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained by relations of pure causality, the construction of a machine can be understood neither without purpose nor without man. A machine is made by man and for man, with a view toward certain ends to be obtained, in the form of effects to be producedâ€¦ a mechanical model of any phenomena is explanatory only so long as we take machines as already granted.”

Source : "Knowledge of Life".

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