“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 FOX AND THE CROW
A Crow was sitting on a branch of a tree with a piece of cheese in her beak when a Fox observed her and set his wits to work to discover some way of getting the cheese. Coming and standing under the tree he looked up and said, "What a noble bird I see above me! Her beauty is without equal, the hue of her plumage exquisite. If only her voice is as sweet as her looks are fair, she ought without doubt to be Queen of the Birds." The Crow was hugely flattered by this, and just to show the Fox that she could sing she gave a loud caw. Down came the cheese, of course, and the Fox, snatching it up, said, "You have a voice, madam, I see: what you want is wits.”
― Aesop, quote from Aesop's Fables
“One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the most harm to the enemy with a minimum of death and damage to your own men and materiel. Modern warfare has become very complex, especially during the last century. Wars are won not by a simple series of battles won, but by a complex interrelationship among military victory, economic pressures, logistic maneuvering, access to the enemy’s information, political postures—dozens, literally dozens of factors.”
― Joe Haldeman, quote from The Forever War
“Perhaps—the insight came suddenly—perhaps love existed in its truest, deepest form when one partner saw into the soul of the other and never shrank from what was discovered there.”
― John Jakes, quote from North and South
“He loved Nirvana, but at his age they were kind of a guilty pleasure. All that rage and pain and self-hatred! Will got a bit...fed up sometimes, but he couldn't pretend it was anything stronger than that. So now he used loud angry rock music as a replacement for real feelings, rather than as an expression of them, and he didn't even mind very much. What good were real feelings anyway?”
― Nick Hornby, quote from About a Boy
“Serious fans always need to feel uniquely connected to the object of their fandom; they jealously guard those points of connection, however tiny or imaginary, that justify the feeling of uniqueness.”
― Jonathan Franzen, quote from Freedom
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