"The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons -- it was systemic and it was complete."

-- Gary Shteyngart

#Moon Quotes #Orange Quotes #Sullen Quotes

“I don't really care if people get upset. I think I'm doing my job if people get upset; I want them to think! We all want them to think, hopefully.”
“I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc.”
“A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.”

Source : "Jim Clyburn: Susan Rice Attacks Are Racial Code" By Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2012.
“Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.”
“It is certainly true in the United States that there is an uneasiness about certain aspects of science, particularly evolution, because it conflicts, in some people's minds, with their sense of how we all came to be. But you know, if you are a believer in God, it's hard to imagine that God would somehow put this incontrovertible evidence in front of us about our relationship to other living organisms and expect us to disbelieve it. I mean, that doesn't make sense at all.”
“You can't control what you can't measure”

Source : Robert L. Glass, Tom DeMarco (2006). “Software Creativity 2.0”, p.130, developer.* Books
“I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.”
“Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say that it was a good and fine place but all the Americans were running it into the ground and that it would be a far better place if it had no Americans.”

Source : Edward P. Jones (2009). “The Known World”, p.41, Harper Collins

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