The Ticket That Exploded Quotes & Sayings

Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot. — Samuel Beckett

Today the vacuum [of space] is not regarded as empty. It is a sea of dynamic energy, like the spray of foam near a turbulent waterfall. — Harold E. Puthoff

One October day in 1976, a Cuban airliner exploded over the Caribbean and crashed, killing all 73 people aboard. There should have been 74. I had a ticket on that flight, but changed my reservation at the last moment and flew to Havana on an earlier plane. — Stephen Kinzer

Feeble is the character, that bows to inflated ego, arrogance, and whines of affluent, whilst raising itself mercilessly on the humble and underprivileged. — Aniruddha Sastikar

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think. — Dixie Carter

Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this. — Michael Eric Dyson

Eminent Princeton physicist John Wheeler has for years been insisting that when observing light from a distant quasar that's bent around a foreground galaxy so that it had the possibility of appearing on either side of that city of suns, we have effectively set up a quantum observation but on an enormously large scale. It means, he insists, that the measurements made on an incoming bit of light now determine the indeterminate path it took billions of years ago. The past is created in the present. This of course recalls the actual quantum experiments outlined in our earlier chapters, where an observation right now determines the path its twin took in the past. — Robert Lanza

Erhaps mortals are not formed for fairy bliss? — Susanna Clarke

Benjamin Disraeli had anticipated Erewhon's fears in his novel Coningsby: "The mystery of mysteries," he wrote, "is to view machines making machines, a spectacle that fills the mind with curious and even awful speculation. — Ronald Wright

Your love is blissful, graceful, and divine. When it touches me, it burns me with joy to purify. — Debasish Mridha

Know who I am? ... 'Good Bye Mister' is my name ... 'Wind and Dust' is my name ... 'Never Happened' is my name ... — William S. Burroughs

After approximately two decades and several billion dollars ... Among the various types of cancer that account for 78% of the incidence..the upward trend in survival rates has not exceeded a few % ... a far gloomier picture than has been generally conveyed to a hopeful public by our leading cancer research institutions ... A generally passive lay press has been the means of transmission. — Daniel S. Greenberg

Every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

And mind you don't talk about anything serious. Nothing is serious nowadays. At least nothing should be. — Oscar Wilde

Frankly, I'm not responsible for other people's perceptions and what they consider real or fake. We must abolish the entitlement that deludes us int believing that we have the right to make assumptions about people's identities and project those assumptions onto their genders and bodies. — Janet Mock

Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view. — Cesar Romero

As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge. — Taiye Selasi