#Planets Quotes
“My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.”
“One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.”
“In this world of uncertainty and woe, one thing remains unchanged: Fresh, canned, pureed, dried, salted, sliced, and served with sugar and cream, or pressed into juice, the tomato is reliable, friendly, and delicious. We would be nothing without it.”
“Come to him. He turns no penitent one away. Would you, if you had paid so much in suffering? Would you ever give up? All the doors that are locked against the Lord are locked by us.”
“The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.”
“The snow has left the cottage top; The thatch moss grows in brighter green; And eaves in quick succession drop, Where grinning icicles have been, Pit-patting with a pleasant noise In tubs set by the cottage door; While duck and geese, with happy joys, Plunge in the yard pond brimming over. The sun peeps through the window pane: Which children mark with laughing eye, And in the wet street steal again To tell each other spring is night.”
“The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless.”
“When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.”
Anthony Horowitz Novelist
Freeman Dyson Physicist
Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist
Stuart Kauffman Biologist
Geoffrey Marcy