"Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him."

-- Karl A. Menninger

#Life Quotes #Track Quotes #House Quotes

“The problem is, you can't tell people these things. They'll think you're crazy. And I say to myself: What can I do with this life inside me? I'd like to give it ... to make a present of it ... to go up to people and tell them: You need to be joyful! You know? You have to play at being pirates ... to build cities of marble ... to laugh ... to set off firecrackers”
“Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And itâ€™s no wonder. Weâ€™re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?”
“I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.”
“I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?”
“The square root of 69 is 8(ate) som'”
“The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we are all in our virtual bubbles when we are out in public, whether we are texting, listening to iPods, reading or just staring dangerously at other people.”
“The sea complains upon a thousand shores.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1856). “Poems ... Third edition”, p.241
“Color must be thought, imagined, dreamed.”

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