"And what if thereâ€™s nothing in there?â€™ You die and thereâ€™s nothing beyond that. Nothing. Nothing remains. Someone might remember you for a little while after but not for long."

-- Dmitry Glukhovsky

#Long Quotes #What If Quotes #Littles Quotes

“You know, it's kind of hard because I really - I see kids on their Rollerblades and their bikes, and just running around, climbing trees, and I used to do that. And I loved doing that.”
“We as a society have created rules and laws and systems that not only are transphobic and homophobic but theyâ€™re also racist and theyâ€™re sexist. Because weâ€™re all brought up in the middle of that, whether we want to admit it or not, weâ€™re all on some level racist and sexist and homophobic and transphobic. It makes it difficult for other people when we turn a blind eye to it. We donâ€™t agree with the laws that are going, but we donâ€™t vote against them. We donâ€™t like what our leaders are doing, but we donâ€™t pick up the phone and call them. We donâ€™t stand up and protest.”

Source : Source: www.usmagazine.com
“The whole mass of any body is just the mass of ether surrounding the body which is carried along by the Faraday tubes associated with the atoms of the body. In fact, all mass is mass of the ether; all momentum, momentum of the ether; and all kinetic energy, kinetic energy of the ether, This view, it should be said, requires the density of the ether to be immensely greater than that of any known substance.”

Source : Joseph John Thomson (1904). “Electricity and Matter”
“I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.”
“I don't want people to think about one common thing. Coda is non-discursive, just like choreography for the stage. So each audience member's thoughts about it, or better yet, their feelings, will be different. Moreover, images contain so much information that one can see things that the next person won't notice. As a result, people will surely think about Coda in dissimilar ways.”
“Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.”

Source : Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.”
“You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.”

Source : Gwen Bristow (2014). “Tomorrow Is Forever: A Novel”, p.133, Open Road Media

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