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“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
― The Last Lecture
― The Last Lecture
“What did it matter what she wrote about a dead Swedish girl, when people in other parts of the world did nothing but kill each other?”
― Studio sex
― Studio sex
“The third oddity was the surface on which Lawrence was doing his own succussion. It was a huge, black leather-bound King James Bible. Having done three raps on the Bible, his fist clenched around a vial containing a homeopathic remedy made from amethyst, Lawrence looked up. His face said, "I wish you hadn't seen that".
"You don't have to use a Bible," he assured me.”
― 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
"You don't have to use a Bible," he assured me.”
― 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
“Guitar makes even have a word for these baby-boomers-who-alwyas-wanted-to-be-great-guitarists-and-now-have-the-money-to-indulge-those-dreams: dentists”
― Guitar: An American Life
― Guitar: An American Life
“The definitive study of the herd instincts of astronomers has yet to be written, Fernie said, but there are times when we resemble nothing so much as a herd of antelope, heads down in tight formation, thundering with firm determination in a particular direction across the plain. At a given signal from the leader we whirl about, and, with equally firm determination, thunder off in quite a different direction, still in tight parallel formation.
(quoting an observation made by astronomer J. Donal Fernie)”
― 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
(quoting an observation made by astronomer J. Donal Fernie)”
― 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
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