"We should not measure our space-faring era by where footprints have been laid.... We should measure our era by how many people take no notice at all. A legacy rises to become culture only when its elements are so common that they no longer attract comment."

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Space Quotes #People Quotes #Legacy Quotes

“It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.”
“I post probably 5 to 10 times a day in my forum. I have a forum directly related to my blog where I will write my blog and people will disagree with me and call me an idiot so then I will say this is why I wrote that and blah, blah, blah. I spend a lot of time online.”

Source : Source: pokerworks.com
“All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.”
“... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.”
“There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a second copy of a book, cut the spine off, lay each page on a scanner, run that .tif through an OCR (Optical Character Reader), hand edit the resulting output for errors and then post it online if you don't love the book. it can up to 80 hours to turn a printed novel into an eBook. I figure if someone out there is willing to put in 80 hours of work promoting my book, then I'd prefer they do it in a way that gives a better return to me.”
“Most Christians have more Bibles than they know what to do with, but have little understanding of what is in them.”
“If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.”
“My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.”

Source : Raquel Welch (2010). “Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage”, p.63, Weinstein Books

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