"I love knowing that I am simultaneously as big as the universe and yet merely a heap of star dust."

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Source : Jill Bolte Taylor (2008). “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey”, p.159, Penguin

Jill Bolte Taylor

#Stars Quotes #Dust Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.”
“The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS.”
“I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them.”
“I would kill to do more work with Orla Brady, I think she's that gifted.”

Source : Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. May 6, 2011.
“Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process.”

Source : "Adam Baldwin Talks THE LAST SHIP, Auditioning for Michael Bay, Striking Up a Friendship with Eric Dane, Looking Back on FIREFLY and THE INSIDE, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 06, 2014.
“...Iknow the bitter fact that most lives are incredibly wasted, that opportunities for developing identity, for receiving pleasure, for achieving a sense of self-worth are limited and, not only underdeveloped, but in most cases not developed at all--because no one thinks that a housewife, or a mother, or a typist has anything to develop.”
“We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.”
“The madness of demons is rage - the madness of angels - hope.”

Source : A. A. Attanasio, Jeff Bigman (2011). “The Dragon and the Unicorn: The Perilous Order of Camelot, Volume One”, p.103, A. A. Attanasio

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