The border is a line that birds cannot see.
— “The Border: A Double Sonnet” by Alberto Rios
Another nice day at the river.
O, Wind, if Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
— “Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Chicken and pesto 🍕
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
— The Dead by James Joyce
A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.
— Disturbing the Universe by Freeman Dyson
And whereas sense and memory are but knowledge of fact, which is a thing past and irrevocable, science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another…
— Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
— The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment.
— In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live…
— “The Jumblies” by Edward Lear
I cannot seriously believe in it because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.
— letter to Max Born by Albert Einstein
Onions and prociutto 🍕
I never guess. It is a shocking habit — destructive to the logical faculty.
— The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
— The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Say it loud! I’m black and I’m proud
— “Say It Loud — I’m Black and I’m Proud” by Alfred “Pee Wee” Ellis
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
— “Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination” by Arthur C. Clarke
Every body persists in its state of being at rest or of moving uniformly straight forward, except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by force impressed.
— Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
— The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
Charles River
FINALLY!!!
Data visualization matters: purplestatesofamerica.org
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery — air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.”
— The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Spinach and sausage 🍕
How puzzling all these changes are! I’m never sure what I’m going to be, from one minute to another.
— Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll