"No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid."

-- Ernest Lawrence

#Progress Quotes #Stones Quotes #Path Quotes

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
“If you are feeling helpless, help someone.”
“What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality.”
“I've always had a feeling that the image is 50% of the emotion that an audience feels and it's subliminal. Yet, how you arrange the elements in front of a camera has an impact on people's belief about that world in some way.”
“You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.”
“The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.”
“I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth's ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar.”

Source : "Reading Your Friends’ Novels" by Brad Leithauser, www.newyorker.com. January 07, 2013.
“Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.”

Source : "Larry Gelbart's `M*A*S*H' Memories and Comic Asides" by Larry Gelbart, www.sfgate.com. May 17, 1998.

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