"Death," said Akiva. His life was leaving him fast now that he no longer held his wound. His eyes just wanted to drift closed. "I'm ready." "Well, I'm not. I hear it's dull, being dead." She said it lightly, amused, and he peered up at her. Had she just made a joke? She smiled. Smiled He did, too. Amazed, he felt it happening, as if her smile had triggered a reflex in him. "Dull sounds nice," he said, letting his eyes flutter closed. "Maybe I can catch up on my reading."

-- Laini Taylor

#Nice Quotes #Reading Quotes #Eye Quotes

“I think there are two areas where new ideas are terribly dangerous: economics and sex. By and large, it's all been tried, and if it's really new, it's probably illegal or dangerous or unhealthy.”
“For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.”
“Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.”

Source : Nâzım Hikmet, Mutlu Konuk Blasing (1994). “Poems of Nazim Hikmet”
“... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.”

Source : Daniel Bell (1991). “The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys”, p.20, Transaction Publishers
“Humanity, you never had it to begin with.”
“Justin Timberlake is the single most talented human being I've ever met in my life, and it sickens me. He is, like, 12 years old or something! He has 0 percent body fat, he is musically gifted, he has a great ear for accents, and he is hilarious.”
“If you laugh, think, and cry; that's a full day.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 02, 2011
“It's better to create something that others criticise than to create nothing and criticise others. Go create, have fun!!”

Source : FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Jan 04, 2015

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