"The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit."

-- George Santayana

#World Quotes #Amusement Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“I like the idea that a song can be something that you can lean on, both for the songwriter and for the person who hears the song.”
“Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.”
“The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it. This makes it possible to feel intelligent without thinking, and it is a way of making everything tolerable, for the assumption of a suitable attitude toward experience can give one the illusion of having dealt with it adequately.”

Source : Robert Warshow (1962). “The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre & Other Aspects of Popular Culture”, p.75, Harvard University Press
“Environmental issues are on everyone's mind. It's part of our culture now and I can only applaud and laud anyone who is doing what they can and raising awareness.”
“To invoke the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing - for it leaves unexplained the origin of the Designer.”
“There are no friends at cards or world politics”
“He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.”
“When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.”

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