#Lightning Quotes #Strikes Quotes
“Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.”
“It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.”
“It's like people always say, Well, does sport teach you anything in life? It teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you other things. It doesn't teach, as I say, very much about marriage, very much about how to make a living, any of those things.”
“I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't.”
“A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.”
“It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.”
“It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.”
“Our galaxy is 10 billion years old. The Earth is only 4.5 billion years old. We are a firefly flicker in the great astrobiology of the galaxy.”
Source : "Hunting for the Great Galactic Internet". Interview with Slate, www.slate.com. April 8, 2012.
