#ang

People do not have the power to change situations, situations have the power to change people though. ↗

— Ram Mohan

#change #changing #changing-people #circumstances #life

I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#dangerous #date #daughters #end #guy

Religion has always persecuted science. ↗

— Dan Brown

#dan-brown #religion #science #religion

I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them. ↗

— Andy Richter

#been #feel #four #i #mediocre

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas. ↗

— Eric Bentley

#bright #genuine #ideas #instead #jargon

The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#power #nature

Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it. ↗

— Lawrence M. Krauss

#metaphysics #science #science

Is it fair your life burns so short and bright? Death had asked. "No such thing as fair," Frank told himself. "If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#frank-zhang #life #son-of-neptune #death

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting. ↗

— Russell Banks

#book #changed #come #completely #could

Everything started the night I saw the burning man fall from the sky. ↗

— Gwen Hayes

#paranormal