"How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die."

-- Thomas Cole

#Stars Quotes #Night Quotes #Lovely Quotes

“I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.”
“Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?”
“Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.”

Source : Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.252, Vintage Canada
“I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.”

Source : "Controversy behind climate science's 'hockey stick' graph" by Fred Pearce, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2010.
“If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.”
“The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.”
“With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly; she grows a second heart and a second brain, second eyes and second limbs, a complete set of second body parts as if for use as spares, and then, after almost a year, she expels that second screaming being out of her belly and into the world, alive. Bizarre, isn't it?”

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