Leningradskoye Quotes & Sayings

It was an old story so rubbed with retelling that the edges were blurry. — Helen Simonson

Is it birthday weather for you, dear soul?
Is it fine your way,
With tall moon-daisies alight, and the mole
Busy, and elegant hares at play
By meadow paths where once you would stroll
In the flush of day? — Cecil Day-Lewis

I spend a lot of time thinking about what I do and how it fits into the scheme of things. I won't do something just because it's funny. — Joel Hodgson

Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Sometimes when I teach a student something that I think is really simple, I realize I'm teaching them something they can do 90 percent of really easily and the last 10 percent is going to take them 10 years. — Bruce Molsky

Thorne sent his answers to Franklin in the form of heavily researched memos. Pages long, deeply sourced, and covered in equations, they were more like scientific journal articles than anything else. Franklin's team wrote new rendering software based on these equations and spun up a wormhole. The result was extraordinary. It was like a crystal ball reflecting the universe, a spherical hole in spacetime. — Anonymous

My ambitions at this point are modest and mostly surround staying alive. — David Foster Wallace

There is no Frigate like a book. — Emily Dickinson

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy. — Seth Lloyd

Our very existence imposes rules determining from where and at what time it is possible for us to observe the universe. That is, the fact of our being restricts the characteristics of the kind of environment in which we find ourselves. That principle is called the weak anthropic principle. — Stephen Hawking

occurred. But there was no denying it now, the evidence was all over him. The pleasantly warm flush to his normally sallow cheeks; the relaxed, almost rubbery way he leaned against the window - a stark contrast to his usual calcified, if slightly hunched posture; and most important — Ben Mezrich

It occurred to me that we were the same, in a way. Both of us treading water, pushing against forces we couldn't control. — Heather Demetrios