"His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Literature Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Consciousness Quotes

“I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.”
“In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.”
“No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.”

Source : "The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist". Book by Richard Feynman, 1999.
“If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.”
“My whole persona is vodka bottles and ***** The hope in Nana was rockin', inspired from my Mama”
“Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days donâ€™t last forever, you know. But Iâ€™ll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.”

Source : Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.68, Penguin
“Preconceptions and knowledge really only get you to the edge of where creativity begins. Then intuition and faith take over, hopefully.”

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