"We cannot take credit for our record avancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped, and we have been helped by the people of other worlds."

-- Hermann Oberth

#Other Worlds Quotes #People Quotes #Fields Quotes

“There's an ocean of music out there and there's absolutely no curation for it.”

Source : "Beats betting on curated playlists for upcoming music subscription service" by Dieter Bohn, www.theverge.com. February 12, 2013.
“That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at once-all of them being fair to each other.”
“There's a sketch at every turn.”
“The first time I had work in a public space it felt very strange to see people that I didn't know looking and, and presumably commenting on, my work. Nowadays, I'm a bit more fatalistic - they either like the work or they don't and there's not a lot I can do about that. The trick seems to be not to get too pissed on open nights so that I can answer any questions without making a fool of myself. Doesn't always work!”

Source : Source: louderthanwar.com
“(The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die.”
“Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.”

Source : Jane Rogers (2012). “The Ice is Singing”, p.35, Canongate Books
“Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.”
“First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rusack. In the late afternoon, after a day's march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of light pretending.”

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