Quotes
Authors
Peter Straub

"Because dead people are just like you and me, they still want things. They look at us all the time, and they miss being alive. We have taste and color and smell and feelings, and they donâ€™t have any of those things. They stare at us, they donâ€™t miss anything. They really see whatâ€™s going on, and we hardly ever really see that. Weâ€™re too busy thinking about things and getting everything wrong, so we miss ninety percent of whatâ€™s happening."

-- Peter Straub

#Thinking Quotes #Color Quotes #Smell Quotes

“You cannot measure the loss of a human life. It's all the things a person was, all their dreams, all the people who loved them, all they hoped to be and could give back to the world.”
“How long are women to remain a wholly unrepresented body of the people? This is a question that has of late been agitated in England, and women in this colony read, watch, and reflect...Why should not New Zealand also lead?...Why has a woman to power to vote, no right to vote, when she happens to possess all the requisites which legally qualify a man for that right?”
“Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.”
“Deep down within anyone there's a flame that maybe had gone dormant that can be fanned or ignited in case it had blown out. This is the flame of curiosity, the flame of wonder, of awe, of all the things that make you want to learn something more tomorrow than you knew today.”
“I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.”
“Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.”
“If she is given full immunity ... in order to verify that she's telling the truth, which I'm sure she is, I would be happy to submit her to a polygraph examination. Lie detector's not a good word because they can't detect lies.”

Source : "Lewinsky Attorney Says His 'Media Blitz' Over", www.cnn.com. February 1, 1998.
“Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries-the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure.”

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