"I went through this difficult time [in the 1984] when we were making our third record where I kind of lost my mind. That's when the bulimia kicked in. And that's when I got really freaky."

-- Michael Stipe

#Mind Quotes #Records Quotes #Difficult Times Quotes

“She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.”
“When I go home to England, my friends all make fun of me for sounding American.”
“...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing in the making of Sciences; for whoever has fix'd on his Cause, before he experimented; can hardly avoid fitting his Experiment to his Observations, to his own Cause, which he had before imagin'd; rather than the Cause to the Truth of the Experiment itself. Referring to experiments of the Aristotelian mode, whereby a preconceived truth would be illustrated merely to convince people of the validity of the original thought.”

Source : "The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge".
“There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.”
“You have never felt the weight of disappointing love or of failing to live up to expectations. The only thing you've ever been is lonely by yourself-you have no idea how desperate it is to be lonely in the midst of people who love you, and whom you would have done anything to make happy..”
“I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.”
“Protestant women may take the pill. Roman Catholic women must keep taking The Tablet.”

Source : In 'Guardian' 28 December 1990, p. 27
“He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.”

Source : Stephen Crane (2014). “The Red Badge of Courage”, p.78, Broadview Press

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