“Why should knowledge of where I came from tell me where I am going to?”
A.J.P. Taylor (1906–1990) Historian
'Moving with the Times', The Observer, 22 October 1961
“Why should knowledge of where I came from tell me where I am going to?”
A.J.P. Taylor (1906–1990) Historian
'Moving with the Times', The Observer, 22 October 1961
“My name is Katniss Everdeen.
Why am I not dead?
I should be dead.”
Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay
Source: Mockingjay
Lawrence M. Krauss (1954) American physicist
"A Universe From Nothing" by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo#t=16m49s (16:50-17:23) <br class="br">Context: The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.
Adam Goldstein (1973–2009) American DJ
DJ AM’s friend rushed to his SoHo apt., but he was already dead http://blog.taragana.com/e/2009/08/29/goldstein-suffered-daily-struggle-to-cope-29107/ Taragana. Retrieved August 30, 2009.
Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
Frantz Fanon book Black Skin, White Masks
"The Lived Experience of the Black Man"/"The Fact of Blackness"
Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
“Why should I worry about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!”
Raymond Smullyan (1919–2017) American mathematician
This Book Needs No Title (1986)
“I can't believe I'm still here,
I know I should be dead.”
Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
11 Silver, written by Ozzy Osbourne, Zakk Wylde and Kevin Churko.
Song lyrics, Black Rain (2007)