"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

-- Benjamin Franklin

#Inspirational Quotes #Positive Quotes #Fitness Quotes

“By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings -- Gyges' ring of invisibility. And they have left the American people more deeply baffled by their own country's politics than any people on earth. Our public realm lies steeped in twilight, and we call that twilight news.'”

Source : Walter Karp (1992). “Buried alive: essays on our endangered republic”, Franklin Square Pr
“History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.”
“One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.”

Source : "Instapaper inventor links inattentive reading to information obesity" by Tim Carmody, www.wired.com. October 12, 2010.
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 08, 2014
“I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want people to feel a kind of empathy with them. When you think about it, all nature is kind of strange looking.. in fact, I'm a strange a looking creature.”
“Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,â€™ Holly advised him. â€˜That was Docâ€™s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you canâ€™t give your heart to a wild thing; the more you do, the stronger they get. Until theyâ€™re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. Thatâ€™s how youâ€™ll end up Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. Youâ€™ll end up looking at the sky.”
“I love a novel that’s funny, and The Taxman Cometh is very funny, delightfully well-written, yet with a serious message about how government bureaucracy affects us all. Read. Enjoy. And if a comparison to Catch 22 pops into your mind, that’s not surprising.”
“When completed, Disney's California Adventure will feel more immersive and richer. It will have more heart.”

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