#ago

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#attempts #billion #came #doubt #either

Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#barely #been #cases #companies #four

I couldn't beat Michael Phelps. A couple of years ago, I was racing against him and it just kinda dawned on me during the race that there was no chance I was gonna beat this guy. And so I said, if you can't beat him, find a race that he won't swim. ↗

— Mark Warkentin

#ago #beat #chance #couple #dawned

I quit smoking well over twenty years ago. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#i #i quit #over #quit #smoking

Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune. ↗

— Alexander Woollcott

#chicago #germany #hitler #much #responsible

But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#chicago #favorite #life #out

It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, "This is not a criminal act," not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#act #acts #back #before #between

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#dead #either #field #five #teaching

Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#ago #character #fabulous #hilton #paris

I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#ago #being #desired #i #long