"But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence."

-- Alberto Manguel

#Book Quotes #Night Quotes #Space Quotes

“Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasyâ€”â€œto stand outsideâ€â€”comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away.”
“I know where my heart is and I know that I can make people feel something with my music. I'm quite confident in what I am doing, so if I can also make a song that people want to put in ten times during a party and makes them happy, then I think that is also good. I feel that playfulness is something that has entered my life a lot more in the last couple of years. I'm not taking everything too seriously. I think that is something that comes with age - I hope. I feel that music is much more fun for me than it has ever been.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.”
“Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!”
“At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all lifeâ€™s many losses buried in those sands.”

Source : Thomas H. Cook (2012). “The Crime of Julian Wells”, p.23, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“It's like living at an airshow, unless you have something against airplanes, golf, guns, motorcycles, nice cars or drinking.”
“At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way--and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.”

Source : "The Emperor's Old Clothes". Tony Hoare's lecture at the 1980 ACM Turing Award in Nashville, Tennessee; "Communications of the ACM", Volume 24, Issue 2, dl.acm.org. February 1981.
“Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.”

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