"I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot."

-- Ed Koch

#Age Quotes #Twelve Quotes #Born Quotes

“The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.”
“While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.”

Source : Jack Vance (2007). “The Jack Vance Treasury”, Subterranean
“Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.”
“People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes. Storytelling, which is the basis of the novel, has always existed and always will.”
“Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.”
“What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.”
“Tech stocks are trading at a 30-year-low when compared to the multiples of industrials (companies). Its the weirdest bubble when everyone hates everything.”
“But things don't just fall apart. People break them.”

Source : Robin Wasserman (2012). “The Book of Blood and Shadow”, p.13, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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