"I knew that to find and to feel Yoav again would be terribly painful, because of what had become of him, and because of what I knew he could ignite in me, a vitality that was excruciating because like a flare it lit up the emptiness inside me and exposed what I always secretly knew about myself: how much time I'd spent being only partly alive, and how easily I'd accepted a lesser life."

-- Nicole Krauss

#Alive Quotes #Vitality Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices.”

Source : "How to turn Dickens into a serial thriller" by Andrew Davies, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2008.
“Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon, on which I am mounted, see how he bends his once stiff neck to his rider, champing his checked bit and pawing the dust, impatient to leap around the globe. Genius is prescient, foresees its own might. Man is striving through these iron-ribbed, steam-sped hippogriffs, to recover his lost ubiquity and omnipotence, and threatens soon to grasp in his ample palm, and fix with flaming eye-ball, the elemental forces!”
“This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.”
“Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.”
“Never undervalue the idea of partners. Understanding your strengths and then going out trying to find like-minded people who will be another pillar of your success.”
“Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls.”
“People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.”
“I would like to thank all the people who've said such nice things about it. Team Batman is giving it our collective all for you. We're trying hard to not let you down.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com

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