Rusminigun Quotes & Sayings

Henry liked to put to himself when he was a schoolboy: what are the chances of this particular fish, from that shoal, off that continental shelf ending up in the pages of this copy of the Daily Mirror? Something just short of infinity to one. Similarly, the grains of sand on a beach, arranged just so. The random ordering of the world, the unimaginable odds against any particular condition, still please him. Even as a child, and especially after Aberfan, he never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a trillion trillion possible futures; the pickiness of pure chance and physical laws seemed like freedom from the scheming of a gloomy god. — Ian McEwan

I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer. — William Monahan

The origin of our identity is love. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

The end and beginnings of beings are unknown. We see only the intervening formations. Then what cause is there for grief? — Aviott John

I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation. — Will McDonough

How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting?
Better go drunk and begging round the taverns.
Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yours
Will make a cup, bowl, one day a jar.
When once you hear the roses are in bloom,
Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine;
Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell-
These are but fairy-tales, forget them all. — Omar Khayyam

It's crazy how much energy we spend trying to avoid these hard topics when they're really the only ones that can set us free. — Brene Brown

It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are. — Bradford Cox