"But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself."

-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#Tree Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Soul Quotes

“I hate a messy closet. I totally freak out when my closet is messy and I can't find anything.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Often we need to use policy to level the playing field, or to be sure that a technology is managed in a responsible way.”
“Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.”
“My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat.”

Source : "Studs Terkel, voice of America's uncelebrated, dies aged 96" by Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2008.
“One thing that's really interesting is not only the magnitude of the recent immigration into this country, but also its distribution and its investment in the country. About 9.3 percent of the population is now foreign-born [announced by the Census Bureau at over 10 percent a few days later]. What's really surprising is how well distributed those population groups are. Historically, we see new immigrants primarily on the coast and in a few big cities. I think the data are going to show a much wider distribution of the new population groups than we've experienced historically.”
“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.”
“Absorbing. . . . Scrupulously reported . . . illuminates todayâ€™s Middle East. . . . The â€˜least interventionist of any modern president,â€™ the father of the Eisenhower Doctrine that still defines US policy in the Middle East . . . in 1956 battled demons in bodies personal and politic and in the desert â€“ and prevailed. Nicholsâ€™ book, written lean enough to allow the facts to speak for themselves, makes for exciting history.”
“Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.”

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