Equinoxes National Geographic Quotes & Sayings

He is only one of a million no, a billion stories you could tell about the living beings on just this side of the mountain. The fact is that there are more stories in the space of a single second, in a single square foot of dirt and air and water, then we could tell in a hundred years. The word amazing isn't much of a word for how amazing it is. The fact is that there are more stories in the world than there are fish in the sea or birds in the air or lies among politicians. You could be sad at how many stories go untold, but you could also be delighted at how many stories we catch and share in delight and wonder and astonishment and illumination and sometimes even epiphany. — Brian Doyle

We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency. — Edward Snowden

Every now and then a clear harmonic cry gave new suggestions of a tune that would someday be the only tune in the word and would raise mean's souls to joy. — Jack Kerouac

Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers. — David Lodge

Back in '93 and '94, when 'Dookie' was being made, my dad built this tour bus for us, out of a bookmobile. We toured in it for the first year. It was a really bad idea, by the way. — Tre Cool

I did everything I could to not be a musician. — Dhani Harrison

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. — George Santayana

Be the light for all the world to see or be the darkness that hides in the shadows. — Sheila Parker

History constantly reminds us that in an uncertain world there is no visibility of prospects. Future earnings cannot be predicted with accuracy. — David Dreman

He saw no cracks in the fabric of existence that demanded a Creator. Not until his existence cracked around him. — Matthew Mather

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything. — William Shakespeare

Well, I think he's right to notice that there is a difference in attitudes and even in the broadest sense of world view between Eastern Europe and Western Europe. Which is old and which is new is an interesting question, and I almost think that maybe he's got it backwards. — Robert Kagan

It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise. — Noam Chomsky

The real badge of honour at work is not to work longer than anyone else, but to work smarter than anyone else. — David Hieatt