“If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”
Stephen Hawking book A Brief History of Time
Source: A Brief History of Time
Popular quotes page 66
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor
"Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World" in Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)
“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer
“Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.”
Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
Variant: Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.
Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer
Equinoctial Regions of America (1814-1829)
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Source: "The Flaw in Paganism" in Death and Taxes (1931)
“Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”
Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman
“Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.”
B.K.S. Iyengar (1918–2014) Indian yoga teacher and scholar
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 61
George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator
Thiis was published without credit in The Best Loved Poems of the American People (1936) with the title "Friendship", and since that time has sometimes been misattributed http://www.geonius.com/eliot/quotes.html to Eliot; it is actually an adaptation of lines by Dinah Craik, in A Life for a Life (1859): <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Context: Oh, the comfort —<br>the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person —<br>having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,<br>but pouring them all right out,<br>just as they are,<br>chaff and grain together;<br>certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them,<br>keep what is worth keeping,<br>and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
“Wordless,
Infinite —
You.
You intensify
everything.
You are
fire
burning
all that
is left
of my
heart.”
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter
“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.”
Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Other sources
Source: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
Context: Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff than anything indoors. Graffiti has been used to start revolutions, stop wars, and generally is the voice of people who aren't listened to. Graffiti is one of those few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make somebody smile while they're having a piss.
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
Speech at Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (28 June 1964), as quoted in By Any Means Necessary (1970)
By any means necessary: speeches, interviews, and a letter (1970)
Variant: The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Source: Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers' Power
Context: Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and our people rediscover their identity and thereby increase their self respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.