"When you let your mind go blank,' he said, 'or when you stop talking for a long time, something happens. Time becomes different. It goes away. It doesn't come back until you start to say something."

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Source : Peter Høeg (2013). “Borderliners: A Novel”, p.35, Macmillan

#Talking Quotes #Long Quotes #Mind Quotes

“To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves and not to leave it to others to transform themselves or to bring about a modified change through revolution, either of the left or of the right. It is important to understand that this is our responsibility, yours and mine...”
“We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make it accessible for the mass market. Which is understandable if you're the producer, but aggravating if you're the artist.”
“The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.”

Source : William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.32
“Every night is a time for drink.”
“It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.”
“Ann Sjoerdsma has successfully blended the fascinating story of her illustrious father's scientific achievements [in wide-ranging] drug research, with an enjoyable historic account of the astounding progress of biomedical science during the second half of the 20th century.”
“I don't play basketball as good as I used to and I hate losing, so I'd rather not be seen in public until I make sure my A game is up.”

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“Did those nice church ladies come by again?" He nodded. "I asked them if a man died and then the woman remarried, and then the three of them met in heaven, would it be a sin for them to have a threesome, since they were all married in God's eye. And they decided they were late to be somewhere else.”

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