"Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east..."

-- Aldous Huxley

#Two Quotes #Feet Quotes #East Quotes

“I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.”
“Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.”
“In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.”
“A chiropractor accomplished in three weeks what the army doctors haven't been able to do in two years.”
“Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in 1913-14. In blitz games he gave all the St. Petersburg players odds of five minutes to one - and he won.”
“Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.”

Source : Alexander Berkman (2003). “What is Anarchism?”, p.151, AK Press
“I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We have the Annunciation, the Conception, the Birth and the Adoration, as described in the first and second chapters of Luke's gospel; and as we have historical assurance that the chapters in Matthew's gospel which contain the miraculous birth are an after addition not in the earliest manuscripts, it seems probable that these two poetical chapters in Luke may also be unhistorical, and borrowed from the Egyptian accounts of the miraculous births of their kings.”

Source : Samuel Sharpe (1863). “Egyptian mythology and Egyptian Christianity, with their influence on the opinions of modern Christendom”, p.19

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