What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.
She had a nostalgia for a life she had never lived.
— Nancy Lemann
There is no longer room for irrelevant things. We have no longer got the resources. Irrelevance is out.
— Dieter Rams
Andrei Tarkovsky on the set of Solaris.
When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.
— Vera Nazarian
Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.
— Bill Nye
Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.
Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting, ever-changing, applicable to everything; with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.
— Carl Sagan
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; while working at Haus Esters, about 1927/28.
You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have.