"I think every now and then about Seanâ€™s thumb pressed against my wrist and daydream about him touching me again. But mostly I think about the way he looks at me â€“ with respect â€“ and I think thatâ€™s probably worth more than anything."

-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Thinking Quotes #Touching Quotes #Way Quotes

“The technology companies don't understand creative things at all. Silicon Valley's view of the creative process in Hollywood is a bunch of guys in their young thirties sitting on a couch, drinking beer, and thinking up jokes.”
“Here's the thing: if I want to do something, I just have to do it - for real! I'm not gonna pussy out in the moment. I don't want no holding back!”

Source : Source: www.highsnobiety.com
“None dare challenge me when i say i am an Afrikan.”

Source : Thabo Mbeki (1998). “Africa: the time has come : selected speeches”
“...I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach the mystery of the mind...”

Source : Wilder Penfield (2015). “Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain”, p.9, Princeton University Press
“I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.”
“The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies â€” socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor â€” and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food.”

Source : "Breaking the great Australian silence". John Pilger's speech at the Sydney Opera House to mark his award of the Sydney Peace Prize, johnpilger.com. November 5, 2009.
“Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.”

Source : "May Day Manifesto". 1916.
“Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is, by these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age.”

Source : Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.303

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