"You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies."

-- Julian Casablancas

#Yuppies Quotes #People Quotes #Parent Quotes

“We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.”
“Family isnâ€™t something thatâ€™s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. Theyâ€™re born, they die. Itâ€™s always evolving, turning into something else.”
“I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?”

Source : Kate Chopin (1974). “The Storm And Other Stories with THE AWAKENING”
“I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.”
“I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I avoid Olduvai if I can because it is a ruin. It is most depressing.”
“When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?”
“It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them... not as if they had met before... but as if they had come close several times until finally an impatient Fate had forced their paths to intersect.”
“I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country.”

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