"The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse."

-- Yevgeny Zamyatin

#Tongue Quotes #Reverse Quotes

“For something to be beautiful it doesnâ€™t have to be pretty.”
“All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.”
“CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.”
“[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.”
“Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence-love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor to arrive at a more exact knowledge of the world of mind and matter around us, and reverence, because every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.”

Source : Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”
“I agree that dreams seem to be involved in laying down memories but I realise that dreaming gives us access to a part of our brain we do not normally have access to.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“You sleep with a dream of summer weather, wake to the thrum of rainâ€”roped down by rain. Nothing out there but drop-heavy feathers of grass and rainy air. The plastic table on the terrace has shed three legs on its way to the garden fence. The mountains have had the sense to disappear. It's the Celtic temperamentâ€”wind, then torrents, then remorse. Glory rising like a curtain over distant water. Old stonehouse, having steered us through the dark, docks in a pool of shadow all its own. That widening crack in the gloom is like good luck. Luck, which neither you nor tomorrow can depend on.”

Source : Anne Stevenson, “Drench”
“Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.”

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