"He wasn't completely wrong, poor old Gemistus (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like), in wanting us, telling us to become pagan once again."

-- C.P. Cavafy

#Pagan Quotes #Lord Quotes #Poor Quotes

“When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.”

Source : "New Again: Alec Baldwin". Interview with Charles Kaiser, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 19, 2012.
“I was a senior research scientist that changed the accepted view of the structure of the universe. I disproved one of the then widely accepted â€œlawsâ€ of physics, 'the conversation of parity', by proving that identical nuclear particles do not always act alike.”
“I think Chairman Davis has said he would always prefer that baseball strengthens its own policies and not leave it to Congress to legislate. In the absence of any action, he believes Congress is ready to move forward.”

Source : "Heat Is On for Baseball to Toughen Drug Policy" by Jack Curry, www.nytimes.com. September 21, 2005.
“It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own.”
“I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.”

Source : Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers
“[Campaign sign when running for Congress in 1967:] Vote for me or I will hold my breath until I turn blue.”
“Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.”
“Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects -themselves.”

Source : "Lead time". Book by Garry Wills, 1983.

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