"Fear is the politicians dance partner."

“When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.”

“You were dead.' She said. 'And in the whole world there was nothing beautiful left.”

Source : Alessandro Baricco (1998). “Silk”, Vintage

“Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.”

“I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.”

“Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us ... This service of prayer is not a mere rite, a ceremony through which we go, a sort of performance. Prayer is going to God for something needed and desired. Prayer is simply asking God to do for us what he has promised us he will do if we ask him ... Asking is man's part. Giving is God's part. The praying belongs to us. The answer belongs to God.”

“O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.”

Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “Muses in mourning. Zara, to which is added, an interlude, never before printed. Snake in the grass. Alzira. Saul. Daraxes. Merope. Roman revenge. Insolvent. Some love letters, by the author”, p.147

“Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.”

Source : "Microsoft Needs a Real Plan, Not a Memo" by Mat Honan, www.wired.com. July 11, 2014.

“One of these days, you're going to fall in love with some guy, and you're not going to know what to do with yourself.”