"A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the spring, love, and dogs."
George Jean Nathan
"I do not remember how it got into my head to make the first calculations related to rocket. It seems to me the first seeds were planted by famous fantaseour, J. Verne."
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
"A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life."
Roy Bennett
"When the audience knows you know better it's satire but when they think you can't do any better it's corn."
Spike Jones
"It's witchcraft with all the crusts cut off, and real witchcraft is ALL crusts."
Anonymous
"The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation."
Abraham Lincoln
"I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job."
Sara Sheridan
"Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."
Anonymous
"We think to dance, and dance in thought. But to hibernate in the mind, is to bring upon us an apocalypse of the Soul."
Ilyas Kassam
"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future."
Frederick Douglass
"This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth."
Steve Almond
"The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds."
Alfred de Vigny
"He could be distracted, still, by beauty, by the wonder of a stroke of sunlight. Perhaps at such times he made himself open to wizardry-or conversely, was as warded and safe at such moments as Ynefel at its strongest. Perhaps threats simply slid past his attention and he made himself immune."
C.J. Cherryh
"500. There are paradoxes. If there were no night, we would be deprived of themagnificent image of a starry sky. Thus light deprives us of 'vision,' anddarkness helps us 'see."
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