"There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating those diligent sprawling suburbs, the downtown city sneers like anything."

-- Jan Morris

#Vegas Quotes #Cities Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.”
“In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.”
“Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for both.”

Source : Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.
“To her friends said the Bright one in chatter, "I have learned something new about matter: My speed was so great, Much increased was my weight, Yet I failed to become any fatter!"”
“Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature. Individuals exercise it by their single will; collections of men by that of their majority; for the law of the majority is the natural law of every society of men.”
“In the Father's house we shall meet Buddhists and Jews, Muslims and Protestants...”

Source : "Helder Câmara - Brazil's archbishop of the poor" by Hugh O'Shaughnessy, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2009.
“When you're a hammer (as the saying goes), all your problems look like nails. If you're a meteorite expert pondering the sudden extinction of boatloads of species, you'll want to say an impact did it. If you're an igneous petrologist, volcanoes did it. If you're into spaceborne bioclouds, an interstellar virus did it. If you're a hypernova expert, gamma rays did it.”
“This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.”

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