“You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.”
Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
On working with director Sam Peckinpah, as quoted in "(Westerns Channel Begins Production on Original Documentary Focusing on Western Films of Legendary Director Sam Peckinpah" (29 August 2003) https://archive.is/20130628092918/www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-24232345_ITM
“You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.”
Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
“Ibn al-Haytham was the first person ever to set down the rules of science. -S01E05”
Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)
“If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989) Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist
This is a threat to the independence and worth of the human personality, a threat to the meaning of human life.
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968), Dangers, The Threat to Intellectual Freedom
Context: Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only slightly more remote dangers.
One of these is the stupefaction of man (the "gray mass," to use the cynical term of bourgeois prognosticators) by mass culture with its intentional or commercially motivated lowering of intellectual level and content, with its stress on entertainment or utilitarianism, and with its carefully protective censorship.
“There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.”
David D. Burns (1942) American psychiatrist
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Speech http://books.google.com/books?id=5jIwAAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+only+excuse+that+America+can+ever+have+for+the+assertion+of+her+physical+force+is+that+she+asserts+it+in+behalf+of+the+interests+of+humanity%22&pg=PA23#v=onepage to the Daughters of the American Revolution at Memorial Continental Hall in Washington, D.C. on April 17, 1916 <br class="br">1910s