"I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't."

-- Philip Hensher

#Thinking Quotes #Hollowness Quotes #Novel Quotes

“We talk to each other in code. We said that 420 was a special number. It was a time. It was a date. It was a symbol for what we did for passive resistance.”
“I don't want people to think that I can't make fun of myself.”
“Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.”
“We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on ... And if we are ignorant of the most obvious things about us, and the most considerable within our selves, 'tis then no wonder that we know not the constitution and powers of the creatures, to whom we are such strangers.”
“Be a light unto oneself”
“Ultimately, there's always been a link between comic books and video games, and comic books and movies, and then basically all three steadily becoming this sort of transmedia.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.”
“We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.”

Source : "Frontier Freedom: An Interview with Malcolm Wallop". Interview with Rick Henderson, William H. Mellor , Ill, reason.com. November 1995.

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