Likely Quotes (page 390)

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• may
• evening
• fly

There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them. Arthur C. Clarke

• drinking
• restaurant
• finds

They do it in Thai restaurants in London. You ask for a drink, and it comes in a glass with loads of seaweed and pebbles in it like a scene from Finding Nemo. Karl Pilkington

• sea
• free
• manly

Here's a health to our Captain, so gallant and free. Whether stuck on a rock or asleep 'neath a tree. Or rolled in the arms of some nymph of the sea. Which is where we would all like to be, man! Margaret Atwood

• girl
• time
• girls

I don't like killing a girl," the Spaniard said."God does it all the time; if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you. William Goldman

• happy
• describe
• preparation

What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it. Andre Gide

• book
• leaving
• our

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. Dorothy L. Sayers

• stop
• stopped
• did

When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop. Karl Lagerfeld

• sea
• you me
• whatever

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)it's always ourselves we find in the sea. E. E. Cummings

• science
• doubt
• true

Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last. Rene Descartes

• fly
• him
• look

Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's... Raymond Chandler

• mind
• reflection
• mindfulness

Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take... Arthur Schopenhauer

• feeling
• sometimes
• adulting

Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult Art Spiegelman

• tasteful
• taste
• tastes

The snozberries taste like snozberries! Roald Dahl

• future
• presents
• presenting

I have seen the future and its like the present. Only longer. Dan Quisenberry

• night
• war
• she

War is like night, she said. It covers everything. Elie Wiesel