"I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers."

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Source : "Mysterious World (Strange Skies)". TV Series, November 18, 1980.

Arthur C. Clarke

#Thinking Quotes #Machines Quotes #Astonishment Quotes

“But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.”
“I think it need realness, you should speak on thing that you know about, that you being from, that you experienced or that you been around, you know. I think you need a good hook, good beats and good lyrics.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.”
“When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.”

Source : Lenore Coffee (1973). “Storyline; recollections of a Hollywood screenwriter”, Burns & Oates
“The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.”

Source : John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.181, LSU Press
“Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.”
“Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.”
“I don't like it when people ask me what my favourite Beatles song is. I always get that. First of all, I don't like having to pick a favourite thing anyway. You can't pick a favourite Beatles song! What about "Strawberry Fields"? What about "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"? What about "Tomorrow Never Knows"? Come on. That question is small minded to think you could even have a favourite Beatles song.”

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