"Look at the sun! Itâ€™s dry, itâ€™s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And Iâ€™ll give it blood!"

-- Alfred de Musset

#Blood Quotes #Giving Quotes #Dry Quotes

“And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see its mesh of patterns, and it strikes us as beautiful. And that feeling is the most important thing in all the universeâ€”its culmination, like the color of the flower at first bloom on a wet morning.”

Source : Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Green Mars”, p.19, Spectra
“Being effortless is the coolest thing in the world”
“A long time ago, Trinity and I made a list of types of guys you should never date. We add to it every now and then. It includes things like never date a guy whose computer costs more than his car (you'll never get him to pay attention to you except over instant messages), never date a guy who has a pet lizard (he's probably into weird stuff in bed) and never under any circumstances go on a second date with a guy who says the word "married" on the first date (he'll turn out to be a mama's boy or a religious type)”

Source : Adam Selzer (2010). “I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It”, p.46, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“I love playing in the UK because there are some topics that you just can't talk about in the States without getting run out of town. So let me just say this: Louis C. K.'s new show sucks.”
“You think youâ€™re a very clever fellow, donâ€™t you?â€ Saldur challenged. â€œNo, Your Grace,â€ Merrick replied. â€œClever is the man who makes a fortune selling dried-up cows, explaining how it saves the farmers the trouble of getting up every morning to milk them. Iâ€™m not cleverâ€”Iâ€™m a genius.”
“Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.”
“Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.”
“He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]”

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