"Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know."

-- Cornelia Funke

#Heart Quotes #Long Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“What are numbers? What is the nature of arithmetical truth?”
“My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.”
“My uncle was the first one in my family to get a telephone. It was like going to the moon. He came running over to tell us, and we were so proud. A telephone! We didn't have to go to the candy store to phone any more. We went around telling everyone. But we didn't hear from my uncle for three days, so my father got worried. He said, Let's go over there. We got there, and my uncle was very depressed. I asked, What's the matter? He said, I got a telephone and nobody called me. He didn't give his number out - he didn't know that you had to!”
“I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.”
“The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.”

Source : James Gould Cozzens, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1978). “Just representations: a James Gould Cozzens reader”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
“Just relax and breathe through your ass.”

Source : Lewis Black (2008). “Me of Little Faith”, p.38, Penguin
“I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!”

Source : Final written goodbye, August 13, 1992 in "Back to the Wild" by Chris McCandless and Mary Ellen Barnes, (2nd ed.), Twin Star Press, (pp. 234-241), 2013.
“If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.”

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