"A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion."

-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Philosophical Quotes #Air Quotes #Discussion Quotes

“Kenneth Cooper's research shows that low to moderate intensity exercise is just as beneficial as high-intensity exercise - but without the rigorous wear and tear on the system.”

Source : Ann Louise Gittleman (2016). “The New Fat Flush Plan”, p.133, McGraw Hill Professional
“I laughed, loud enough that Delia looked up at me. She made motions for me to come over, but I pretended to be looking past her into the food tent. "Hurry. Pretend you're pointing something out so I can pretend not to see her." Luke put a hand on my shoulder and pointed with the other towards the sky. "Look, the moon." "That was the best you could come up with?" I demanded.”
“It's difficult to get a job and people stay in school longer because they're employed as teaching assistants or instructors by their schools, by their schools where they're graduate students, and that does become exploitative eventually because they're very cheap labor and there's a way in which in it's not in the institution's interest to give them a degree if they can continue to employ them, I don't think anybody thinks that way, but effectively that's the way the system is starting to work.”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
“Music has always been transnational;”
“I feel that things happen for a reason and open up new opportunities.”
“My pitch count as a general rule was 135. And I knew how many pitches I had when I went to the mound for the last three innings.”
“Your mother is not crazy. Neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother. He is merely miscast in a play. He would have made the perfect knight in a different century, or a very good pagan prince in a time of heroes. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river, with the ability to do anything and finding nothing he wants to do.”
“his thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies”

Source : Samantha Shannon (2013). “The Bone Season”, p.421, A&C Black

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