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“Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.”
Source : Zane Grey (2000). “Tales of Fishing Virgin Sea”, p.154, Derrydale Press
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“I don't want to fool people. If I wanted to do that, I would be working with virtual reality. I want to operate on the other level, the other end of the illusion spectrum. I want to create the worst possible illusions so it doesn't really fool people, but instead give people a measure of their own belief. It makes them aware of how much they need to be fooled in order to understand the world around them.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I mean, I eat really healthily.”
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“Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.”
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“The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.”
Source : John Godfrey Saxe (1873). “The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe”, p.334
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“Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us.”
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“The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.”
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“Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous.”
Source : Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.27
