"Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness."

-- Robert M. Pirsig

#Essence Quotes #Quality Quotes #Absence Quotes

“It's the reason we go to films and watch television: to escape the mundane nature of life and see another world and see ourselves in that other world. I think that's what sci-fi does so well.”

Source : "Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany discusses all her roles - in the same show". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. May 31, 2013.
“I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.”
“Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.”
“Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive.”
“There are hundreds of thousands of kids walking around with a sleeping monster inside them.”
“We're all a bunch of badminton birdies who just got batted from the Republican side of the court to the Democrat side. We'll eventually get batted back again, of course, unless libertarians can manage to do something about it. If your principal concern, like mine, is freedom, there's absolutely no discernable difference between the two 'majors,' and for all practical purposes, they're one big party the Boot On Your Neck party pretending to be two.”
“To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.”

Source : George Ade (1901). “Forty Modern Fables”
“I studied medicine so I could help others - set a leg or whatever - and it's given me a great deal of satisfaction.”

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