"Here I sit, sober and perhaps even lucid, on the sort of winter's day that makes you realize a New Year is just around the corner and you've got very little to show for it, but if you are going to get anything done on this planet, you better pick it up with both hands and DO IT YOURSELF."

-- Peter Laughner

#New Year Quotes #Winter Quotes #Hands Quotes

“The only time is Now. All other times - past, present, and parallel - can be accessed in this moment of Now, and may be changed for the better.”

Source : Robert Moss (2014). “The Boy Who Died and Came Back: Adventures of a Dream Archaeologist in the Multiverse”, p.12, New World Library
“As I understand it, triangulation is the idea that you demonstrate to some set of swing voters that you are politically palatable by poking the extremes of both parties in they eyes.”

Source : "The Obama Triangulation: The Right, the Left and Slick Willy" by Judith Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2010.
“Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A.”
“In high school, when you're a top player, there are ways of getting eligible, ways of getting out of going to class. It made going to the next level, which is college, that much harder.”
“The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.”
“Cause there's nothing, there's nothing you can teach me That I can't learn from Mr. Hathaway.”
“He didn't try to take the net off its hinges with that header.”
“He gave me a copy of The Declaration of Independence, then he got a tattoo that says Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death. I think my boyfriend wants his freedom.”

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