"Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative."

-- Gail Collins

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Narrative Quotes

“But actually a code is a language for translating one thing into another. And mathematics is the language of science. My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and shapes, patterns emerge and you start to understand why things are the way they are.”
“I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations.”
“John Goodman's pretty dark - I love John Goodman.”
“With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing.”
“Itâ€™s education thatâ€™s meant to take us into this future that we canâ€™t grasp.”
“What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?”

Source : Italo Calvino (2012). “If on a winter's night a traveler”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age!" "Honey, he's four thousand years old," Veronica said.”

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