"This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close, and large near things appear very small, and how we may make small things placed at a distance appear any size we want, so that it may be possible for us to read the smallest letters at incredible distances, or to count sand, or seed, or any sort or minute objects."

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Source : "De iride ('On the rainbow')". Treatise by Robert Grosseteste,

Robert Grosseteste

#Distance Quotes #Long Quotes #Letters Quotes

“A hero is someone who over and over does the right thing even though no one is there to witness it.”
“We must train ourselves in courage and generosity.”

Source : Roger Caillois, Claudine Frank, Camille Naish (2003). “The edge of surrealism: a Roger Caillois reader”, Duke University Press Books
“When you come close to selling out, reconsider.”

Source : Song: I Hope You Dance, Album: I Hope You Dance
“It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those thingsâ€”a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earringâ€”with immense, even startling power.”

Source : Raymond Carver (2015). “Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories”, p.25, Vintage
“It really kind of looks like now that John Kerry is on his way to the presidential nomination. The only thing that can sink John Kerry now is an Al Gore endorsement.”
“Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.”
“Don't google your name. Ever. Don't â€œsearchâ€ for yourself on anything that glows in the dark. Don't let your beauty be something anyone can turn off. Don't edit your ugly out of your bio. Let your light come from the fire. Let your pain be the spark, but not the timber. Remember, you didn't come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.”
“Iâ€™m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch me â€“ my neck, say, or my knee â€“ and Iâ€™d carry on reading, I might let a smile, no more, wouldnâ€™t lose my place on the page. It would be pleasant to come to that. Weâ€™d come so close, do you see, that I wouldnâ€™t be surprised out of myself every time you touched.”

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