"A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur."

-- Jostein Gaarder

#Elephants Quotes #Cells Quotes #Noses Quotes

“It's mostly directors whom I get starstruck around.”
“There are some good things and some fantastic ones in Auden's early attitude; if the reader calls it a muddle I shall acquiesce, with the remark that the later position might be considered a more rarefied muddle. But poets rather specialize in muddles and I have no doubt which of the muddles was better for Auden's poetry: one was fertile and usable, the other decidedly is not. Auden sometimes seems to be saying with Henry Clay, "I had rather be right than poetry"; but I am not sure, then, that he is either.”
“Life is as inexorable as the sea.”

Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1900). “Studies in romance”
“Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.”
“The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.”
“Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.”
“If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.”
“I looked at an angel today, but the angel could not see me. The angel was more amazing than beautiful, like the best forgotten dream.”

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