Daljit Nagra (1966) British poet, teacher and broadcaster
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1992990,00.html
Source: Heist Society
Daljit Nagra (1966) British poet, teacher and broadcaster
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1992990,00.html
Carl Sagan book Pale Blue Dot
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 159
Context: It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.
“Half a dozen slaps the time.”
António de Oliveira Salazar (1889–1970) Prime Minister of Portugal
Quoted in The fascist Salazar: Salazar and national-syndicalism: the story of a conflict, 1932-1935 - page 90, of John Medina - Published by Livraria Bertrand, 1978 - 249 pages
“Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.”
John Grisham (1955) American lawyer, politician, and author
“You cannot figure out crazy. Just keep smiling and nodding.”
Ray Garton (1962) American writer
Theodore Gray (1964) American science writer
As quoted in Getting Personal: Theodore Gray http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2013-02-10/getting-personal-theodore-gray.html
“It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.”
Rebecca Wells book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood