“Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.”
― Greg Keyes, quote from Interstellar
“Don’t trust the right thing, done for the wrong reason. The ‘why’ of a thing—that’s the foundation.”
― Greg Keyes, quote from Interstellar
“Murphy’s Law doesn’t mean bad stuff will happen,” he explained gently, really wanting her to understand. “It means ‘whatever can happen… will happen.’ And that sounded just fine to us.”
― Greg Keyes, quote from Interstellar
“Love, like gravity, which could move across time and dimensions.”
― Greg Keyes, quote from Interstellar
“You say science is about admitting what we don’t know,” she said.”
― Greg Keyes, quote from Interstellar
“Gravity crosses the dimensions, including time,” he said.”
― Greg Keyes, quote from Interstellar
“His physical body, this physical body was not—could not be—in the past. But gravity could. Like Tars said, gravity cut across and through all of the dimensions. When he punched at one of them, what he was really doing was sending a pulse through space-time, a gravitic surge that was responsible for moving the books.”
― Greg Keyes, quote from Interstellar
“Fine,” he said. “Murph, you wanna talk science, don’t just tell me you’re scared of some ghost. Record the facts, analyze—present your conclusions.”
― Greg Keyes, quote from Interstellar
“One of those useless machines they used to make,” he finally began, “was called an MRI.”
― Greg Keyes, quote from Interstellar
“how important you were,” the man added quickly. That brought up a question Cooper had”
― Greg Keyes, quote from Interstellar
“Hanley said. “We’ve replaced them with corrected versions.” “Corrected?” Cooper asked. “Explaining how the Apollo missions were faked to bankrupt the Soviet Union.”
― Greg Keyes, quote from Interstellar
“you have to leave something behind to go forward
-Newton's Third Law of Motion”
― Greg Keyes, quote from Interstellar
“In space, distance was time, and time was distance.”
― Greg Keyes, quote from Interstellar
“thought he knew how to begin. “After you kids came along,” he told her, “your mother said something I didn’t really understand. She said, ‘I look at the babies and see myself as they’ll remember me.”
― Greg Keyes, quote from Interstellar
“Earth’s atmosphere is 80 percent nitrogen,” he pointed out. “We don’t even breathe nitrogen.”
― Greg Keyes, quote from Interstellar
“I can't be your ghost right now. I need to exist”
― Greg Keyes, quote from Interstellar
“The Bible, Shakespeare, Milton, Melville—the masters of the King’s English all promoted the easy imagery of black as vile and white as purity and thereby fed a deep and potent racism that well served all who would enslave the black men of Africa.”
― Richard Kluger, quote from Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
“All morning I thought how strange our meeting was. I mean, we have to be in a universe, on a continent, in a country, in a state, in a county, on a river, in a small yellow boat.[...]Long odds. And we had to leave our homes at the right time, drive at such and such a pace, stop for lunch, or not, get gas, or not. A thousand coincidences that arranged themselves so that we could meet. And then of course, we have to be attracted to each other. When I was little, my girlfriends and I called it Yeti love. You never expect to see it, but you've heard it's out there and it might just be a legend. But you keep looking for it anyway.”
― Joseph Monninger, quote from Eternal on the Water
“I can be smart when it’s important,” she replies, “but most men don’t like it.”
― Bill O'Reilly, quote from Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
“Come Neti, my chief keeper of the gates of Kur, and listen carefully to what I say: Lock up and bolt the seven gates of Kur, then, one by one, open each gate and let Innana enter through the crack. Bring her down. But as she enters, take her regal costume from her, take the crown, the necklace, and the beads that fall across her breast, the golden breastplate on her chest, the bracelet and the rod and line. Strip her of everything, even the royal robe, and let the holy priestess of the earth, the queen of heaven, enter here bowed low.”
― Hal Duncan, quote from Vellum
“Her voice trailed after any doctor who said no more tests could be done, stalked him down the corridor, sliced”
― quote from Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
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