"Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time"

-- Tracy Kidder

#Giving Quotes #World Quotes #Gone Quotes

“I wanted to go to the end of photography.”
“The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.”

Source : Harry Houdini (2016). “The Unmasking of Robert-Houdini”, p.247, Library of Alexandria
“It's bad biology to rob nonhuman animals of their emotional lives.”
“The original series of Watchmen is the complete story that Alan Moore and I wanted to tell. However, I appreciate DC's reasons for this initiative and the wish of the artists and writers involved to pay tribute to our work. May these new additions have the success they desire.”

Source : "DC Entertainment Returning to 'Watchmen' with 7-Book Prequel Series (Exclusive Image)". Article by Borys Kit, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 01, 2012.
“"But when you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. 'And I don't quite know how they've managed to make this law in their favor, or who exactly it was who gave them a greater license to sin than is allowed to us; and if the fault is common to both sexes (as they can hardly deny), why should the blame not be as well?”

Source : "The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men".
“He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.”
“So the HP guy comes up to me (at the Melbourne conference) and he says, 'If you say nasty things like that to vendors you're not going to get anything'. I said 'no, in eight years of saying nothing, we've got nothing, and I'm going to start saying nasty things, in the hope that some of these vendors will start giving me money so I'll shut up'.”

Source : "Staying on the Cutting Edge". Interview with Sam Varghese, www.theage.com.au. October 08, 2004.
“I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!”

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