"The average ground temperature of the Earth is impossible to measure since most of the Earth is ocean...So this average ground temperature is a fiction."

-- Freeman Dyson

#Ocean Quotes #Average Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.”

Source : "'Mad Men's' Bryan Batt takes your questions". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.
“People want security in this insecure world.”
“What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as exercise is for procuring health and strength to the body.”

Source : John Arbuthnot (1701). “An Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning,: In a Letter from a Gentleman in the City to His Friend in Oxford..”, p.9
“A runner must run with dreams in his heart.”
“Id rather be seen the way I am now instead of falling over myself walking out of a club,”
“Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business.”
“Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction.”

Source : Eva Hoffman (2011). “Lost In Translation: A Life in a New Language”, p.41, Random House
“In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore.”

Source : Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.50, Faber & Faber

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