"When I'm at school in the city, I don't feel particularly worldly or wise. It's only when I come back home that I remember exactly why I left."

-- Megan McCafferty

#Wise Quotes #School Quotes #Home Quotes

“I love physics with all my heart ... It is a kind of personal love, as one has for a person to whom one is grateful for many things.”
“So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.”

Source : Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Convention is another name for the habits of society.”

Source : Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books
“I've been semi-successful. I've done all right but I'm not the player I was. Who do I think will win the world championship? John Higgins. Have I been good for snooker? I don't know.”
“SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it? ... it isn't only that others are there, that they fill up the space next to us. But even when they celebrate us or give advice in a friendly conversation, clever, sensitive advice: even then we can be lonely. So loneliness is not something simply connected with the presence of others or with what they do. Then what? What on earth?”
“The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.”
“For me I'm a luxury brand trying to prove to people and the industry that it's not about being a TV celebrity in any which way, it's about being a designer and having a business and being successful at that.”
“I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.”

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