"Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day."

-- Mason Cooley

#Blessing Quotes #Three Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Iâ€™m the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think about this: the first thing we ever did, when we started turning into humans, was draw a line across the cave door and say: Wild stays out. What I do is what the first men did. They built walls to keep back the sea. They fought the wolves for the hearth fire.”
“You can't give up on me. If you give up, then I'm going to break into a million pieces. I'm here. I'll give you everything I've got.”
“There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.”
“There are so many things to be considered in making music. The whole question of life itself... I know that I want to produce beautiful music, music that does things to people that they need.”
“Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job.”

Source : Ray Bradbury (1973). “Mars and the mind of man”
“Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.”

Source : James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.2, American Enterprise Institute
“You're from where?" "Lay'en. It's near Salt Lake City." "Spell that for me." "Um, that would be S-A-L-T-" "No, the other one. The city you're from." "Oh. L-A-Y-T-O-N." "Ah-Lay-ton." That's what I said." "No you didn't. You just said, 'Lay'en.'" "So I did. But just go ahead and pronounce 'aluminum' for me, Mr. British Man. How are you going to defend that piece of insanity? Why don't you spell it and count syllables and see if your al-um-in-ium makes sense whatsoever?" He bowed his head. "TouchÃ©...”
“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

Source : "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.

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