"One of the most memorable moments was when I first saw earth because I had seen many pictures, many videos of earth from space, and being able to see that with my own eyes had a completely different effect, and sort of almost sensing life emanating from our planet in the dark background of the space, it was a really memorable experience."

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Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

Anousheh Ansari

#Memorable Quotes #Eye Quotes #Dark Quotes

“To those who are willing to believe, no explanation of these events is necessary...and to those who are not willing to believe, no explanation is possible.”
“Instead of recognizing the State as â€˜the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,â€™ the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it not only as a final and indispensable entity, but also as, in the main, beneficent. The mass-man, ignorant of its history, regards its character and intentions as social rather than anti-social; and in that faith he is willing to put at its disposal an indefinite credit of knavery, mendacity and chicane, upon which its administrators may draw at will.”
“Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.”

Source : Natalie Babbitt (2010). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.7, Macmillan
“We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.”
“I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art.”
“Someone once said, 'That place is engulfed in darkness'- however that does in no way mean that there was never any light.”
“Beware of parting! The true sadness is not in the pain of the parting; it is in the when and the how you are to meet again with the face about to vanish from your view.”

Source : "What Will He Do with It?". Book by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1857.
“Be happy. It really annoys negative people.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 5, 2013

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