"Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand"

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Cosmos Quotes #Might Quotes #Energy Quotes

“As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me.”
“Having a baby can be a scream.”
“Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.”

Source : Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.700, Regnery Publishing
“Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.”
“Everyone uses noise as a crutch sometimes - I've totally done it. But when you make a good-sounding record there's nothing there but you.”
“Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper.”
“I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.”
“The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed the sun all day and now gives out again its store of heat. It is softer, darker than I could ever have believed, and when I take a handful of it and smell its extraordinary odors, I know suddenly what it is I am composed of, as if the energy that is in this fistful of black soil had suddenly opened, between my body and it, as between it and the green stalks, some corridor along which our common being flowed.”

Source : David Malouf (2012). “An Imaginary Life”, p.147, Random House

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