"We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth."

-- Alison Gopnik

#Mean Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Zombie Quotes

“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.”
“I don't have anything saying, 'I'm going to do this many new films, and this many comedies.' But, it's always exciting for me, whenever it is a new character and something I haven't done before, and that's part of what draws me to it.”
“I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.”

Source : Roy Lichtenstein, Jack Cowart, Katonah Museum of Art, Dixon Gallery and Gardens (2009). “Lichtenstein in process”
“Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different,”

Source : Wendy Lesser (2014). “Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books”, p.6, Macmillan
“If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!”
“One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.”
“College is part of the American dream. It shouldnt be part of a financial nightmare for families”
“Roar, lion of the heart, and tear me open!”

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