"An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings."

-- Gunter Grass

#Night Quotes #Singing Quotes #Empty Quotes

“I'm really tall - almost six feet - and my features tend to be extreme, especially on TV.”
“No matter where the skeptical thought originates, or how it gets access to our minds, we see at once that it flattens the level of life and every aspiration. It makes our character less vigorous. The gospel is not simply a philosophy of religion or law of life, but it is an apocalypse, showing the heavens to our thought, and so bringing its spiritual benedictions to every heart and life.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 347), 1895.
“If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming Egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.”
“[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with the quantitative study of the laws of heat; and lastly, he demonstrated the nature of water and determined its volumetric composition. Earth, air, fire, and water-each and all came within the range of his observations.”

Source : Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe (1894). “Essays in Historical Chemistry”
“We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.”
“There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.”

Source : 'Les Caractéres ou les moeurs de ce siécle' (1688) 'De l'homme'
“The shows need youth. All of our comics are getting too famous to do the show regularly. The people who are regulars five years ago, a lot of them have moved on and can't do the show anymore. We can't really get Jim Gaffigan anymore, we can't get Nick Swardson anymore.”

Source : Source: www.dead-frog.com
“Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it”

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