"Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them."

-- Booth Tarkington

#Science Quotes

“Nearly losing my life made me want to live my life.”
“Any artist that is even surviving right now is a dark horse because things change pretty fast. You're a superstar one day and wake up the next day and you're anonymous. To be successful in any way is beating the odds right now, I think.”
“You know in cartoons, the way someone can run off a cliff and they're fine, they don't fall down until they look down? My mom always said that was the secret of life. Never look down. But it's more than that. It's not just about looking. It's about never realizing that you're in the middle of the air and you don't know how to fly.”

Source : "Fictional character: Allie Keys". "Taken" (miniseries), 2002.
“The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.”
“I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.”
“Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.”
“The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according to any precept or law. When times change, the carver too will change his style and make new trifles to hit the fancy of the passing day. But there is another kind of artist, who sets more soberly about his work, striving to give real beauty to the things which men actually use and to give to them the shape which tradition has ordained. This maker of real things must not for a moment be confused with the maker of idle toys.”

Source : Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.61, Tuttle Publishing
“Who is this before whose presence idols tumble to the sod? While he cries out â€” Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God!”

Source : "El Amin, The Faithful", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 625-29, 1922.

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