"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."

-- Douglas Adams

#Distance Quotes #Lying Quotes #Science Quotes

“A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.”
“Fans of these freshmen is about to get iffy while this youngin that you doubted is about to get busy.”
“Since I became a dancer, I have felt much better about myself.”
“I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.”

Source : Kelly Miller (1914). “Out of the house of bondage”
“We should not play like Australia or India or England - we should play like Sri Lanka.”

Source : "Mahela Jayawardene" by Charlie Austin, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, www.espncricinfo.com. 2007.
“I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.”

Source : Jonathan Tropper (2010). “This Is Where I Leave You”, p.307, Hachette UK
“It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.”

Source : Saint Ambrose, Aeterna Press (2016). “On the Duties of the Clergy”, p.49, Aeterna Press
“Good looks only take you so far.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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