"It was like the top of the roof came off the house, .. He had that effect on everyone."

-- James Taylor

#House Quotes #Roof Quotes

“And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.”

Source : Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.164, Random House
“If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.”
“I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.”
“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.”
“One cannot run from a challenge without losing. To flee is signing a death warrant to dignity and character, and, having run, there is no return; one is a weakling forever. Meeting a challenge, though one may be defeated, gives strength, character, and a certain assurance that regardless of outcome, one will survive or go down fighting.”

Source : "Reflections from the North Country".
“I've never seen a performer create electricity with an audience like James Brown. He's got everybody in his hands and whatever he wants to do with them, he does it. It's amazing. I've always thought he was underrated.”
“Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a person in meditation: his metabolism, respiration, and calorie consumption reach an extremely low level. Even if he fasts, the energy within the body will be conserved. In the same way, when mandarin oranges grow wrinkled, when fruit shrivels, when vegetables wilt, they are in the state that will preserve their food value for the longest possible time.”
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”

Source : "Principles of Philosophy". Book by Rene Descartes, 1644.

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