"Mainly, of course, if you're not an ice climber, where you really need ice, for most people ice is a damn nuisance. And we just can't wait for it to all melt.And it's always a remarkable fact that it takes so long to melt because the temperature of the air can be well above the freezing point, and the ice is still solid there. So for most people, that's the experience."

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Source : Source: www.npr.org

Ira Flatow

#Air Quotes #Ice Quotes #Long Quotes

“What could me more plausible than a line of reasoning which argues that the explanation of the origin of a system was to achieve an end that has in fact been achieved?”
“Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.”

Source : Preface to "Country Living and Country Thinking". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.
“Examining your thoughts is an important part of the practice of self-reflections”
“Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”
“If you felt like somebody made you feel worthless, that is a lie. You are valuable, you deserve to be treated as a valuable precious treasure.”
“If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.”
“The fact that - I mean, these are things to be talked about. You can't do anything without educating the public, right? And that's a slow work.”
“I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.”

Source : "Chat transcript: Model lives with chronic disease". www.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.

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