“Where is yesterday? … And where is the fiddler and where is the dance?”
Cormac McCarthy book Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian (1985)
“Where is yesterday? … And where is the fiddler and where is the dance?”
Cormac McCarthy book Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian (1985)
“where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.”
Ernest Hemingway book Green Hills of Africa
Source: Green Hills of Africa
Michael McIntyre (1976) British comedian
"Yeeeeeeessssssssss!"
Live at the Apollo (November 26, 2007)
“Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there's no fence, there is terror.”
Tzachi Hanegbi (1957) Israeli politician
Public radio, after the twin suicide bombings in Beer Sheva (August 31, 2004)
“It’s the boundaries where the excitement is and where we will be in the future.”
Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949) German physicist
Small Wonders – The World of Nanoscience. Honeywell-Nobel Laureate Lecture Series at Czech Technical University, Prague (October 19, 2006), http://www.honeywellscience.com/nobel-laureates/physics/horst-stormer
“Where there is life there is a pattern, and where there is a pattern there is mathematics.”
John D. Barrow (1952–2020) British scientist
The Artful Universe (1995)
Context: Where there is life there is a pattern, and where there is a pattern there is mathematics. Once that germ of rationality and order exists to turn a chaos into a cosmos, then so does mathematics. There could not be a non-mathematical Universe containing living observers.<!-- Ch. 5, p. 230
“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is.”
Wayne Gretzky (1961) Canadian ice hockey player
As quoted in: Prime time at ten: behind-the-camera battles of Canadian TV journalism (McClelland and Stewart, 1987), p. 317
“Hell is where you are and Paradise where you are not.”
Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (967–1049) poet
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 96