"At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas â€“ what ideas are for, what jobs they do."

-- Thomas Heatherwick

#Jobs Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Roots Quotes

“Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left hand into the darkness. The Dagger of the Thirteenth, a thief's gesture against evil. "Your night is my cloak, my shield, my escape from those who hunt to feed the noose. I will fear no evil, for you have made the night my friend." "Bless the Benefactor," said Jean, squeezing Locke's left forearm. "Peace and profit to his children.”
“I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.”
“This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.”
“If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern for us. To me it would seem impolite if not impious to bother such a God with our prayers.”

Source : Steven Weinberg (1992). “Dreams of a Final Theory”, Pantheon
“The process of finding happiness within one's own Self may be difficult and slow but it cannot be found anywhere else.”
“I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them.”

Source : "Henry Hudson: Dreams and Obsession; [the Tragic Legacy of the New World's Least Understood Explorer]". Book by Corey Sandler, Citadel Press, p. 119, 2008.
“When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.”

Source : "Bangkok Haunts". Book by John Burdett, 2007.
“We can't wave a magic wand and get rid of any of these people's problems, but what they want is they want to be heard.”

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