““And what happened next?”
“Silence happened next. God, it was beautiful.””
Ray Bradbury book The Golden Apples of the Sun
The Murderer (1953)
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
“Silence happened next. God, it was beautiful.”
The Murderer (1953)
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
““And what happened next?”
“Silence happened next. God, it was beautiful.””
Ray Bradbury book The Golden Apples of the Sun
The Murderer (1953)
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Newspaper interview (1902), when asked what qualities a politician required, Halle, Kay, Irrepressible Churchill. Cleveland: World, 1966. cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 489 ISBN 1586486381
Early career years (1898–1929)
Ross Thomas (1926–1995) 1926-1995 American writer
Cast a Yellow Shadow (1967)
“Never give up… No one knows what's going to happen next.”
L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter
Variant: Never give up. No one knows what's going to happen next.
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
As quoted in The Power of Choice (January 2007)
Context: The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years. And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work I have done is still cited in the text books long after I am gone.
Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean [Episode 1]
Context: We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction. What happens in the first second of the next cosmic year depends on what we do, here and now, with our intelligence and our knowledge of the cosmos.
Kage Baker book Mendoza in Hollywood
Part 2 “Babylon is Fallen” Chapter 11 (p. 255)
Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)