Edwin A. Abbott Quotes
Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.
Edwin A. Abbott
Quotes to Explore
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It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
Pam Grier
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
Becky G
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People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him.
Art Buchwald
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To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.
Weegee
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There has to be a consensus and this is a report, a set of circumstances, that the international community simply cannot ignore.
Jack Straw
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!
B. C. Forbes
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The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
William Osler
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I always begin to compose the melody first.
Nobuo Uematsu
The Black Mages
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Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also for better or for worse takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them.
Claude Levi-Strauss
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With the single exception of Park Lane, every north-south route in London slows traffic to the pace of a wounded gnat with pleurisy struggling with a squaddie's backpack.
Michael Gove
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I was born in Akron, Ohio, on June 6, 1943, one year to the day before D-Day, the allied invasion at Normandy. The youngest of four children, I was brought up in a wonderfully stable, loving family of strong Midwestern values.
Richard Smalley
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The anonymity issue is a big question. As long as people can disguise cyber attacks and as long as there is a sort of question mark over who is responsible, then the problem will continue to exist. And of course what happens in response to that is that there is a move to try and refashion the Internet so that anonymity is impossible, which of course leads to fears among all sorts of groups - civil rights groups, NGOs, and political parties - that the Internet is going to be used simply as a method of control. So these are very sensitive issues.
Misha Glenny
