"In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment."

-- E. L. Doctorow

#Government Quotes #People Quotes #Facts Quotes

“While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.”

Source : Tom Shippey (2014). “The Road to Middle-earth: Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.”
“The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation from lower to higher grades of being. The first fiat of Creation which went forth, doubtlessly ensured the perfect adaptation of animals to the surrounding media; and thus, whilst the geologist recognizes a beginning, he can see in the innumerable facts of the eye of the earliest crustacean, the same evidences of Omniscience as in the completion of the vertebrate form.”

Source : Roderick Impey Murchison (1854). “Siluria the History of the Oldest Known Rocks Containing Organic Remains, with a Brief Sketch of the Distribution of Gold Over the Earth by Roderick Impey Murchison”, p.469
“I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough.”
“You'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it; I find it trivial and banal and boring.”
“Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.”
“. . . I have written a couple of screenplays for studios, and each time has been less gratifying than the last. In my experience, they want no real representations of homosexuality, they want no complexity, they are terrified of ambiguity and unanswered questions - they don't know what they want, except that they want to make lots of money. The only freedom I've ever had as an artist has been in the theatre . . ..”
“I'm a sci-fi guy. But I like fantasy too.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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