"I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's?"

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Source : Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.299, Penguin

Nick Hornby

#World Quotes #Feels Quotes

“You got to be careful of the company you keep.”
“A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.”

Source : Fred Hoyle (1983). “The Intelligent Universe”
“The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power . . . ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument.”
“I'm so happy, I think I'll dress up like J. Edgar Hoover and sing show tunes.”
“People tend to eat through the cello. They tend to take out the things that make it beautifully cello-y sometimes.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.”
“Greatness is not this, wonderful, esoteric, elusive, god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste. You know? It's something that truly exists, in, all of us. It's very simple, this is what I believe, and, I'm willing to die for it. Period. It's that simple.”
“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”

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