"What, what am I to do with all of this life?"

--

Gwendolyn Brooks

#This Life Quotes

“I'm a very conceptual writer.”
“Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.”
“The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.”
“I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen... go wrong”

Source : George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman in the Great Game: A Novel”, p.90, Penguin
“I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.”
“Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature nests small systems like molecules within larger systems like cells, which in turn are nested in systems called organs, organisms, ecosystems. We grew from ancient one-celled ancestors. Nature likes mergers: we contain multitudes of other life forms within us. We stand at the crest of four billion years, bacteria molded into wondrous form, burning with a slow fire and about to take the next step.”

Source : Robert Frenay (2006). “Pulse: The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by Living Things”, p.32, Macmillan
“A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community.”
“Companies, like people, don't much like to change.”

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