"I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife..."

-- David Gilmour

#Atheist Quotes #Afterlife Quotes #Belief Quotes

“Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths in diameter! Yet we take a spider web for granted, as a nuisance in the house rather than as one of the wonders of the world. And think of the furore if Jane Goodall returned from Gombe stream with photographs of wild chimpanzees building their own houses, well roofed and insulated, of painstakingly selected stones neatly bonded and mortared! Yet caddis larvae, who do precisely that, command only passing interest.”
“Since the Cuban Revolution and since the invasion of Santo Domingo a state of emergency has existed in Latin America. The Marines shoot at anything that moves, regardless of partyaffiliation.”
“Don't take no as a full stop, treat it like a comma.”
“No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing.”
“I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Masculine pride is an exceedingly precious and fragile thing”
“Everybody has two swings-a beautiful practice swing and the choked-up one with with which they hit the ball. So it wouldn't do either of us a damned bit of good to look at your practice swing.”
“I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.”

Source : William Stafford (1998). “The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems”, Graywolf Press

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