"Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to."

-- Benoit Mandelbrot

#Facts Quotes #Easy Quotes #Minutes Quotes

“A lot of people ask me if I'm OK. I'm capable of crazy - a lot of people are - but I'm OK.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be anywhere in this universe, that I belonged here as much as any speck of stardust, any comet, any planet”

Source : "Then & Now: Dr. Mae Jemison". CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. June 19, 2005.
“I can't be one of those hipster guys with a beard when I have a hair campaign. I strive to look a little bit more... all-American.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive,”

Source : Janet Malcolm (2013). “The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes”, p.183, Vintage
“The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.”
“Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue.”
“I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.”
“But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.”

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