"Whatever a scientist is doing - reading, cooking, talking, playing - science thoughts are always there at the edge of the mind. They are the way the world is taken in; all that is seen is filtered through an everpresent scientific musing."

-- Vivian Gornick

#Taken Quotes #Reading Quotes #Science Quotes

“There's a sameness and comfort level you get living in a country like America.”
“I like the fact that everyone is nostalgic for vinyl, and I'm being nostalgic for CDs, which are like the new outdated things that no one is going to mourn the loss of - everyone's already written them off.”

Source : "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.
“He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.”
“Healing is the application of love.”
“A shaft of white light used properly can be far more effective than all the color in the world used indiscriminately.”

Source : Josef Von Sternberg (1988). “Fun in a Chinese Laundry”
“Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.”
“In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present - the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.”
“Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not.”

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