"In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head."

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Source : Guy Davenport (1989). “A Balthus notebook”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Guy Davenport

#Space Quotes #All Time Quotes

“If brains have brought us to what we are in now, I think it is time to allow our hearts to speak. When our sons are killed by the millions, let us, mothers, only try to do good by going to the kings and emperors without any other danger than a refusal.”
“Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.”

Source : Laura Anne Gilman (2009). “Flesh and Fire: Book One of The Vineart War”, p.106, Simon and Schuster
“We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success . . . but on Jesus alone.”
“It is a game of chess with this city. We'll have to see how it is going to play out. The city goes back and forth trying to figure out what programs to cut and what they have funding for. What I would love to see is for the city to step up and run the rink 10 months out of the year so kids can play in the summer and we can have camps here in Glenwood.”
“I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.”
“I'm a hopeless fu**ing romantic. That's a part of me that a lot of people don't know about. They know everything there is to know about another part of me, but not a thing about my heart.'- Tommy Lee”
“Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.”

Source : "Jake Gyllenhaal: 'End of Watch changed my life'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2012.
“Those qualities that separate us are often ridiculed by others or criticized by teachers. Because of these judgments, we might see our strengths as disabilities and try to work around them in order to fit in. But anything that is peculiar to our makeup is precisely what we must pay the deepest attention to and lean on in our rise to mastery.”

Source : Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.278, Profile Books

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