“Half of this story is true and the other half might very well have happened.”
― quote from The Twenty-One Balloons
“The best way of travel, however, if you aren't in any hurry at all, if you don't care where you are going, if you don't like to use your legs, if you don't want to be annoyed at all by any choice of directions, is in a balloon. In a balloon, you can decide only when to start, and usually when to stop. The rest is left entirely to nature.”
― quote from The Twenty-One Balloons
“It seems strange to me that mechanical progress always seems to leave the slower demands of elegance far behind.”
― quote from The Twenty-One Balloons
“That's the peculiar thing about nature," explained Mr. F., "it guards it's rarest treasures with greatest care.”
― quote from The Twenty-One Balloons
“The urge to move is natural and understandable. As will be the case throughout your life, no matter how long or brief, the choice is, in the end, yours. Simply bear in mind that most every choice will have consequences, and in this instance those consequences would likely be quite grave.”
― Ron Currie Jr., quote from Everything Matters!
“Our parents encouraged us to follow our dreams and told us that if we wanted to do something, we could do it. And, they said, if we did it the Lord's way, for the right reasons, we would be successful. Not that we would win every game or be wealthy, but that we would be successful in God's eyes if we did the things that glorify Him.”
― Tony Dungy, quote from Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices & Priorities of a Winning Life
“Kayso, it turns out that driving an actual car is way harder than it is in 'Grand Theft Auto: Zombie Hooker Smackdown.”
― Christopher Moore, quote from Bite Me
“completely healed. Maybe a bit of magic”
― Cameo Renae, quote from Hidden Wings
“Não nos deixemos enganar pela brevidade da vida de um indivíduo. Cada um é tão velho quanto todo reino biológico, nossas veias são rios que desembocam no grande mar da memória plena. A odisseia uterina do feto que cresce recapitula toda evolução passada, seu sistema nervoso central é uma escala de tempo cifrada, cada nexo de neurônios em cada camada espinhal é uma marca simbólica, uma unidade de tempo neurônico. Quanto mais para baixo no sistema nervoso for, do cérebro à medula espinhal, mais você estará voltando no seu passado neurológico.”
― J.G. Ballard, quote from The Drowned World
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