13-02-2022, 10:05 AM
"We did what we could. We wrote to newspapers. We marched & we protested. We voted. After that, why not be cheerful? If we stop being cheerful, we give in to them."
Beatrice & Virgil, Yann Martel
"There is always room for a story
that can transport people
to another
place ."
J K Rowling
"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.
If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
Albert Einstein
"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“These money men are strange human beings. They proclaim vision & innovation, but seem unable to imagine what their fellow man might be feeling. Poverty & powerlessness are beyond their ken. If the ability to walk in your fellow man’s footsteps is a barometer of civilisation, then these people are barbarians.”
Greg McGee. Love & money.
“You know why trees smell the way they do?” Murphy asked, looking up from her hammering. “Sap?” Logan guessed. “Chlorophyll?” Murphy shook her head. “Stars. Trees breathe in starlight year after year, and it goes deep into their bones. So when you cut a tree open, you smell a hundred years’ worth of light. Ancient starlight that took millions of years to reach earth. That’s why trees smell so beautiful and old.”
Frances O Roarke
“The point is that all the things we used to let society hold over us – my god, he got drunk in public; good lord, she actually has sex; wow, he’s experimented with drugs; gee whiz, sometimes she doesn’t look perfect; holy crap, he’s had a few minor run-ins with the law - none of that garbage matters, & Caitlin & most of her generations are saying so. They just don’t care about it; they don’t care about it now, & they won’t care about it when they’re the ones in power, either.”
Robert J Sawyer, Wonder
Beatrice & Virgil, Yann Martel
"There is always room for a story
that can transport people
to another
place ."
J K Rowling
"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.
If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
Albert Einstein
"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“These money men are strange human beings. They proclaim vision & innovation, but seem unable to imagine what their fellow man might be feeling. Poverty & powerlessness are beyond their ken. If the ability to walk in your fellow man’s footsteps is a barometer of civilisation, then these people are barbarians.”
Greg McGee. Love & money.
“You know why trees smell the way they do?” Murphy asked, looking up from her hammering. “Sap?” Logan guessed. “Chlorophyll?” Murphy shook her head. “Stars. Trees breathe in starlight year after year, and it goes deep into their bones. So when you cut a tree open, you smell a hundred years’ worth of light. Ancient starlight that took millions of years to reach earth. That’s why trees smell so beautiful and old.”
Frances O Roarke
“The point is that all the things we used to let society hold over us – my god, he got drunk in public; good lord, she actually has sex; wow, he’s experimented with drugs; gee whiz, sometimes she doesn’t look perfect; holy crap, he’s had a few minor run-ins with the law - none of that garbage matters, & Caitlin & most of her generations are saying so. They just don’t care about it; they don’t care about it now, & they won’t care about it when they’re the ones in power, either.”
Robert J Sawyer, Wonder
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)