#din

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#literature #reading #literature

It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context. ↗

— Christopher Darden

#assume #because #been #context #easier

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#conclusions #facts #grinding #i #i am

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#collections #facts #general #grinding #kind

I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.' ↗

— Lindsay Davenport

#going #got #grow #grow up #head

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#belong #binding #christian #christian tradition #citizens

When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom. ↗

— Larry David

#complete freedom #concerned #freedom #succeeding #work

The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary. ↗

— Alan Davies

#extraordinary #light #places #principle #same

The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in. ↗

— Alan Davies

#around #bridge #buildings #drunk #fall

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose. ↗

— Lynn Davies

#how #life #lose #losing #understanding