"Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago."

-- Carl Sagan

#Eye Quotes #Years Quotes #Feet Quotes

“A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.”

Source : "Formula 1's U.S. Fan Base 'Understated,' Andretti Says". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 19, 2012.
“I'm certainly not a trained singer. I'm just kind of following a feeling.”
“I'm very romantic when I masturbate. Sometimes I light a candle...then I try and shoot it out. It's like a carnival.”

Source : "Skanks for the Memories". Comedy album, February 4, 2003.
“[Eva Braun] also stayed with [Adolf Hitler] at the Hotel Imperial in Vienna, the Hotel Dreesen in Bad Godesberg and a few other places. I was never with her in these places, though my mother was there in Vienna.”
“Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn't exist. For some people it's better than where they are. For many it's a relief. From life, she said. A relief from life? Is that living? Some people don't have a choice. No and that's awful for them. Hope is better than misery, he said. Or despair. Hope belongs in the same box as despair. Hope is not so bad, he said. At least despair has truth to it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Susan Minot from Dec 16, 2013
“You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”
“Maybe part of loving is learning to let go.”
“Being a soldier [in the wars of modern power politics] was like being on a team in a sport that drew no crowds, except for the players' own parents and friends.”

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