"Lord, it is time. The summer was very big. Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds go loose. Command the last fruits that they shall be full; give them another two more southerly days, press them on to fulfillment and drive the last sweetiness into the heavenly wine."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

#Summer Quotes #Wine Quotes #Wind Quotes

“Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters.”
“We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love”
“I think you learn how to write by reading an enormous amount, so then your memory is stocked with various constructions, various ways of shaping a paragraph, shaping a chapter.”
“Use design as a framework to bring order out of chaos.”
“Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.”
“People will pay for content ... Everybody is going to have to start charging. They'd be crazy not to.”
“We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science, objects such as Pluto and the other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt are considered planets and called planets in everyday discourse in scientific meetings.”
“One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.”

Source : Willard Van Orman Quine (1976). “The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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