"When I shop for fruit & melons I like to hold a grape next to a cantaloupe & think of Earth next to Jupiter. Then I eat Earth."

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Thinking Quotes #Earth Quotes #Next Quotes

“It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an ***** to your parents.”
“When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.”

Source : 1903 The Land of Little Rain,'The Basket Maker'.
“Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much ...”

Source : Tim Lebbon (2003). “Face”, Dorchester Publishing Company Incorporated
“The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.”

Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, ch. 5, Nationalism, p. 138., 1989.
“I really don't listen to anyone that I'm not proud of saying that I listen to. Even if it's something a little bit more unexpected, I didn't get too deep into the Waka, Gucci records, but I like those with pride.”

Source : "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Frannie Kelley, www.wbur.org. February 12, 2014.
“Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”
“I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.”
“Money is power in American politics. It always has been.”

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