"Madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land."

-- George R. R. Martin

#Greatness Quotes #Air Quotes #Land Quotes

“I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.”

Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.
“Everyone in comedy thinks if you go to the U.S. you become a global star but, unfortunately, I've always been a bit anti-American - so I never did.”
“Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries go up by a similar percentage.”
“Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves.”
“There’s a bunch of different crunches that affect the abs … my favorite is Nestle.”
“Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.”
“Virtue is not always where it seems to be. People sometimes acknowledge favors only to maintain their reputations, and to make themselves more impudently ungrateful for favors that they do not wish to acknowledge.”
“Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the doctrine that teaches that "no durable happiness, nor yet security, for any sentient being can exist while others are a prey to suffering." That truth cannot be questioned and you may take it to heart: in practical terms it means we got ourselves born on the wrong planet -- in the wrong universe.”

Source : "On the Roof of the World". "Liberty Bell" Magazine, December 1987.

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