"One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void."

-- Jean Rostand

#Void Quotes #Parades Quotes #Interest Quotes

“The visible universe is subject to quantification, and is so by necessity. â€¦ Between you and me only reason will be the judge â€¦ since you proceed according to the rational method, so shall I. â€¦ I will also give reason and take it. â€¦ This generation has an innate vice. It canâ€™t accept anything that has been discovered by a contemporary!”
“Disney was kind enough, thoughtful enough and believed enough in me, as a director, to wait for me to be available.”
“I'm no good at predicting what will endure with people. I only know what speaks to me.”

Source : "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.
“Nick spoke again. "Her legitimacy will be questioned." Gabriel thought for several moments. "If our mother married her father, it means that the marchioness must have converted to Catholicism upon arriving in Italy. The Catholic Church would never have acknowledged her marriage in the Church of England." "Ah, so it is we who are illegitimate." Nick's words were punctuated with a wry smile. "To Italians, at least," Gabriel said. "Luckily, we are English." "Excellent. That works out well for us.”
“One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.”
“I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.”

Source : Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.398, Cambridge University Press
“Call me crazy but I imagine a world where we smile when we have low batteries, because that will mean weâ€™re one bar closer to humanity.”
“Playing bad is always more fun than playing good.”

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