"Recent studies have considered the detection of a spaceship visiting our parish of the galaxy. In my opinion that last thought should bring a blush to every human cheek... Fecklessness might be the main theme of the aliens' report on the new-found source of radio pollution ... that emanates from beings who have mastered a lot of physics, chemistry and biology and yet let their children starve-while all around their planet the energy of their mother star runs to waste in a desert of space."

-- Nigel Calder

#Mother Quotes #Running Quotes #Stars Quotes

“I didn't want to be president; I didn't want to be governor; I didn't want to be a congress person. I just wanted to be mayor of the city of Detroit. I lived there my entire life.”

Source : Source: www.finalcall.com
“No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ziggy Marley from May 27, 2012
“Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate...”
“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”
“Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.”

Source : Sarah Manguso (2011). “The Two Kinds of Decay”, p.49, Granta
“If somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! You're wasting my time.”
“... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.”
“That's the challenging thing with TV; it's not the action scenes per se, and it's not the location scenes and the heavy dialog scenes, but the fact that there is just no let-up; there is no break.”

Source : "'Terra Nova' Goes Prehistoric With Star Jason O'mara". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. September 23, 2011.

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