“Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?”
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American novelist, poet, and short story writer 1935–1984Related quotes
“Having found nothing worth more than emptiness, he leaves space vacant.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“Anything that can go wrong with armed men in the light can go twice as wrong in the dark.”
Ben Aaronovitch book Moon Over Soho
Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 12, “It Don’t Mean a Thing” (p. 265)
“Use makes things nothing huge, and huge things nothing.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) English dramatist, poet, and translator
Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595), line 718.
Joan Miró (1893–1983) Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist
from: English Wikipedia, Joan Miró, 1958, as quoted in Twentieth-Century Artists on Art, ed. Dore Ashton, 1986
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“This is a machine and anything can go wrong with it.”
Prakash Javadekar (1951) Indian politician
Responding to allegations that an inferior rath was given to Rajnath Singh for his rath-yatra, as quoted in " Rajnath Singh will get new rath: BJP http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/apr/08yatra6.htm", Rediff (8 April 2006)
