"We should be most careful about retreating from the specific challenge of our age. We should be reluctant to turn our back upon the frontier of this epoch... We cannot be indifferent to space, because the grand slow march of our intelligence has brought us, in our generation, to a point from which we can explore and understand and utilize it. To turn back now would be to deny our history, our capabilities."

-- James A. Michener

#Our Generation Quotes #Space Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“The rumors about me being with Jamal Lewis, Adam Carolla and Tiki Barber are absolutely false. I've never even met Adam or Tiki Barber in person'we did phone interviews. What happens is that a lot of high-profile men saw topless photos of me.”
“To globalize for the sake of globalizing-as a matter of ego-is perilous. Expanding internationally is hard, risky work. Globalization is not just about putting up a plant. It's not about making an acquisition. It's much, much more.”
“Further, Dr. Gold said with a straight face, the pill at optimum dosage could have the side effect of impotence. Until that moment, although I'd had some trouble with his personality, I had not thought him totally lacking in perspicacity; now I was not all sure. Putting myself in Dr. Gold's shoes, I wondered if he seriously thought that this juiceless and ravaged semi-invalid with the shuffle and the ancient wheeze woke up each morning from his Halcion sleep eager for carnal fun.”

Source : William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.31, Open Road Media
“I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.”
“In real life I've learned to love not wearing any makeup whatsoever, and I'm super low-maintenance when it comes to my hair.”
“There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.”
“Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.”
“The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.”

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