"Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing."

-- James Gleick

#Knowing Quotes #People Quotes #Google Quotes

“Serious sport is war minus the shooting.”
“Iâ€™m too young and ridiculous a person to speak for my generation, but Iâ€™d be happy to talk about my own experiences as a generation Y writer. I was raised by a generation of hippies. Throughout my childhood, teachers urged me to fight the establishment. My English teacher assigned Ginsberg and Kerouac and declared Bob Dylan â€œa genius.â€ My science teacher told me that television was â€œthe new opiate of the massesâ€ and bragged about never having owned one. My drama teacher made us perform Beckett.”
“The key points in my life as a kid were so scattered that I was most comfortable in, like, airports.”
“Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.”
“Jazz is like the universe: it's been expanding since its creation and it's connected to everything.”
“Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.”
“When people say, 'I don't see you enough,' well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist, or just 'cause you haven't heard me don't mean I haven't been making noise. But if I keep making noise, you'll pick up.”
“The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which feed on leaves are generally green; and earth-worms the colour of the earth which they inhabit; butter-flies, which frequent flowers, are coloured like them; small birds which frequent hedges have greenish backs like the leaves, and light-coloured bellies like the sky, and are hence less visible to the hawk who passes under them or over them.”

Source : Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”

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