"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!"

-- Alexander Pope

#Nature Quotes #Science Quotes #Night Quotes

“When you're in these movie deals and the studios are talking, they're putting business deals and packages together, but they're making calls based on previous relationships. They go, "Oh, let's call this actor because we did this with him, and he might like him. Does he like him? Let's piece them together." There's a brain behind that puzzle, and I want to be the brain.”
“Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime.”
“Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.”
“When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.”

Source : George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.71, Lulu.com
“What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?”

Source : Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (1845). “Zoe: The History of Two Lives”, p.90
“He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.”

Source : Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.77, Vintage
“The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal; he is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a hair of it shall lie the wrong way. When the cat has eaten, he passes his tongue several times over both sides of his jaws, and his whiskers, in order to clean them thoroughly; he keeps his coat clean with a prickly tongue which fulfills the office of the curry-comb.”

Source : Champfleury (1885). “The Cat, Past and Present”
“You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.”

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