"As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we become a multiplanet species, our chances to live long and prosper will take a huge leap skyward."

-- David Grinspoon

#Moon Quotes #Self Quotes #Long Quotes

“As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians in top hats and diamonds and silk dresses. I don't see bankers and housewives and store clerks. No. I address you all tonight as you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”

Source : Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.249, Scholastic
“As actors, we're a little faster than other people, with breaking down the walls.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep...”
“...to make the world safe for democracy.”
“We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.”

Source : Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.171, Vintage
“You have to record as many details as possible and achieve an order, without taking away the complexity of the real. To voice the real and at the same time to create an image that is a world in itself, with its own coherence, its autonomy and sovereignty; an image that thinks”
“I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.”
“The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.”

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