"There are two Venices I know about and one of them is a hotel in Vegas. The other is an L.A. beach where pretty girls walk their dogs while wearing as little as possible and mutant slabs of tanned, posthuman beef sip iced ***** lattes and pump iron until their pecs are the size of Volkswagens."

-- Richard Kadrey

#Girl Quotes #Beach Quotes #Dog Quotes

“To do science today is to experience a dimension unique in contemporary working lives; the work promises something incomparable: the sense of living both personally and historically. That is why science now draws to itself all kinds of people - charlatans, mediocrities, geniuses - everyone who wants to touch the flame, feel alive to the time.”

Source : Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.16, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.”
“In my heart are the deeds my body has done and my heart has been weighed in the balance.”
“The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.”

Source : Claudia Rankine (2014). “Citizen: An American Lyric”, p.65, Macmillan
“A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.”
“It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.”
“Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast. Our morning rush through crowded streets is not to cry murder but to hit that trough before somebody else gobbles our share.”

Source : Dalton Trumbo (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.23, Kensington Publishing Corp.
“Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.”

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