"Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits."

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Pico Iyer

#Travel Quotes #Home Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“I don't know which is more nutty. All this stuff I do outside of work, or the stuff I do all week.”
“I was lucky enough to realize my dream. When I was a little kid in Santa Barbara, sitting on the floor in my grandmother's house, dreaming of maybe one day working for Walt Disney, and to have that dream come true, I think that's pretty remarkable.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical kind, of such portions of the numerical or quantitative results of observation as remain outstanding and unaccounted for, after subducting and allowing for all that would result from the strict application of known principles.”

Source : Outlines of Astronomy (p. 548)
“People go for help, but their lives don't get better because of those psychiatric drugs. They get worse. They feel numb and they're told that's a good thing. It's how you degrade a society -- by drugging the piss out of it.”
“We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.”
“Photography is the only "language" understood in all parts of the world, and, bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.”

Source : Helmut Gernsheim (1962). “Creative Photography: Aesthetic Trends, 1839-1960”, p.229, Courier Corporation
“It is not wise [for Chinese] to do things to artificially disrupt relations with the U.S.”
“A sketch is just a mini movie.”

Source : "How Jim Rash Went From Improv to ‘Community’ to a ‘Descendants’ Oscar Nomination". Interview with Tim Molloy, www.thewrap.com. February 17, 2012.

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