"I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven."

-- Iain Banks

#Book Quotes #Years Quotes #Drawing Quotes

“The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often.”
“I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.”
“There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.”
“Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty.”
“I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first.”
“At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles. As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised. Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.”
“The reality, as I have come to understand it, is that the future is not fixed, and that therefore it cannot be reliably predicted. Consciousness interacts with vast archetypal fields of possibility and probability. What actually happens is the result of the collision of both forces.”
“We worship so that we live in response to and from this centre, the living God.”

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