"Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?"

-- Carl Sagan

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Truth Quotes

“Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.”
“Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.”

Source : J. Hudson Taylor (1914). “Union and Communion”, p.15, CCEL
“Thank you for the confidence put in my by the motherland and the people, for giving me this chance to represent China's millions of women by going into space.”
“I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.”
“I've stopped doing things that aren't clear comedy gigs - to do something that's not "comedy night," it's a difficult thing. People have to be given permission to laugh. You need to know it's comedy; otherwise you might just think I'm a man talking out loud.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.”
“David Fincher is probably the best comprehensive director in terms of being a manger of a process that must drive forward. He has such confident command of cinema language and visual language and script and performance. He knows more about f-stops than any cameraman, he knows more about lighting than any gaffer, he is a wonderful writer, and he can give you a good line reading. Under pressure, he is the kind of guy who you will just dive in with and trust and follow because his vision is so intense.”
“Well, I am as much a cheerleader for President Obama as Sen. McConnell is a Chippendale dancer.”

Source : "Alison Lundergan Grimes Talks Abortion As She Unfurls Policy Positions" By Howard Fineman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2013.

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