#Space Quotes #Gaps Quotes #Sometimes Quotes
“The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.”
“I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.”
“I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.”
“My father would conclude his dissertations by saying, "Of course, [Albert] Einstein never believed in gravity. It was a distortion of space." And so my father couldn't believe that an attraction at a distance was a reality.”
“We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this work accepted, if I get this job" -- there always seems to loom the possibility of something being over, settled, sweeping clear the way for contentment. This is the delusion of a passive life. When the hope for closure is abandoned, when there is an end to fantasy, adventure for women will begin.”
“What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.”
Source : Jack Vance (1981). “Star King”, p.36, Spatterlight Press
“In the heart of the slaughterhouse -- always -- enough room to nourish the awe.”
“When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.”
Fleur Adcock Poet
Jackie Kay Poet
Michael Donaghy Poet
Peter Reading Poet
