"We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere."

-- Bill Nye

#Motivational Quotes #Middle Quotes #Specks Quotes

“I donâ€™t find it fun watching someone trying to be sexy. Itâ€™s whack. Iâ€™m trying to just show my true personality, and I think that means more than anything else. I think when personality is at the forefront, its not about male or female, its just about, who is this weird character?”
“To be on stage, to be sharing a stage with Lauryn Hill, Grace Jones, SZA, Kelis, and all these incredible women, I'm like 'When did this happen?'”
“In Italy, the concept of the family is very important.”
“Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.”

Source : Daniel J. Levitin (2011). “This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession”, p.260, Atlantic Books Ltd
“In real life, my son had a little injury a couple of years ago where we had moved into a new house and he put his hand through a glass window and it cut him really badly. Thank god he had surgery and repaired everything, but I remember I felt frozen I was so scared, and then I realized I was holding my hand just because his hand was hurt.”
“Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.”

Source : William Cullen Bryant, “The Ages”
“I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.”
“And, yes, I love the process of building.”

Source : "You've got to have faith" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2004.

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