"A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?"

-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Religious Quotes #Heart Quotes #Names Quotes

“This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 20, 2015
“But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre; they'll do everything in their power to prevent even the humblest of teachers and children from accomplishing anything extraordinary. For good work shines a light on the failures of the mediocre, and that is a light which terrifies those who conspire to keep our nation's children, like themselves, ordinary.”
“Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.”

Source : FaceBook post by Robin Thicke from Nov 28, 2011
“You must look at the processes of motion in the macrocosmos and microcosmos accurately, and copy them!”

Source : Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (2000). “The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.15, Gill & Macmillan Ltd
“You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.”

Source : "Nonconformity: Writing on Writing". Book by Nelson Algren, 1996.
“In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.”
“What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.”
“No one had more impact on my career than Gil Hodges. Playing for him was a learning experience, and he was a tower of strength. Not everbody liked him, but everybody respected him. He went about his job in a very professional manner, and it caused me to do the same with my job.”

Source : Tom Seaver, Martin Appel (1984). “Tom Seaver's all-time baseball greats”, Atheneum

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