"The way humans hunt for parking and the way animals hunt for food are not as different as you might think."

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Source : Tom Vanderbilt (2008). “Traffic”, p.145, Vintage

Tom Vanderbilt

#Thinking Quotes #Animal Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.”
“We may live in a culture that believes everyone will be saved, that we are 'justified by death' and all you need to do to go to heaven is die, but Godâ€™s Word certainly doesnâ€™t give us the luxury of believing that.”
“Writers aren't like plumbers. If you're a plumber, you fix one person's boiler in the morning, then you go and fix another in the afternoon. I didn't want to write a book unless I had something new to say - and it was good to live a little in between.”
“I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place, under the last dust.”
“People have said I have a Napoleon complex. But I've always had to fight for everything that I have.”

Source : "A killer crossover". Interview with Sam Alipour, abcnews.go.com. January 24, 2014.
“The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.”
“It's really easy to finish a movie and sort of immediately dive into the next one, because I love working with actors so much and being on set, my inclination is to try to get back to that as soon as possible. There's just never much of a gap.”
“Injection of environmental and political perspectives in midstream of the science discussion cannot help the process of inquiry. I believe that persons with relevant scientific expertise should concentrate, with pride, on cool objective analysis, providing information to the public and decision-makers when it is found, but leaving the moral implications for later common consideration, or at most for summary inferential discussion.”

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