"Who needs to go somewhere when you can read about it."

-- Pseudonymous Bosch

#Book Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!”
“I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of "Apartheid!" I've said many times that the word "Apartheid" means good neighbourliness.”

Source : "Country of My Skull" by Antjie Krog, Random House, (p. 270), 1998.
“It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast between the world's duration and the feeble span of individual experience. There is something in Stonehenge almost reassuring; and if you are disposed to feel that life is rather a superficial matter, and that we soon get to the bottom of things, the immemorial gray pillars may serve to remind you of the enormous background of time.”
“She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway.”
“The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature. The former can only evolve out of the latter and yet the latter is also conditioned greatly by the former. Thus in our exploration of nature, the interplay between our concepts and our observations may sometimes lead to totally unexpected aspects among already familiar phenomena.”
“I think social media is a great place to share ideas and to connect with other people.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district.”
“Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Baz Luhrmann Talks Strictly Ballroom". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. December 03, 2010.

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