"Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself."

-- Frank Herbert

#Time Quotes #Looks Quotes #Consciousness Quotes

“Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.”

Source : Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.5, Vintage Canada
“When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.”
“We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.”

Source : "Mary McDonnell Talks ‘Battlestar’ Finale". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. March 23, 2009.
“Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.”
“There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for certain, and that is, woman as a sex is disliked and persecuted, while as an individual she is liked, loved, and even, with reasonable luck, sometimes worshipped.”
“The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.”
“You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one”
“My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself in times of trouble or change in order to find the ground to stand on in the change. I was coming out of a melancholic phase. This was taken when I was traveling extensively, on the road from hotel to hotel. You get displaced, and then taking self-portraits becomes a way of hanging on to yourself.”

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