Meroe Quotes

#1. Straight is the way to Acheron,
Whether the spirit's race is run
From Athens or from Meroe:
Weep not, far from home to die;
The wind doth blow in every sky
That wafts us to that doleful sea.

John Addington Symonds

#2. I always thought that it's important to have other things, not just work, and I often even suggested my managers take some time off and come back fresh and ready to fight again.

Ernesto Bertarelli

#3. God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more police and procedural shows than I've ever done science fiction shows. I was on 'Murder She Wrote,' I was on 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' I was on 'Jake and the Fat Man.'

J. Michael Straczynski

#5. Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

Robert Fripp

#6. If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.

Rebecca Eaton

#7. Hinduism is wholly free from the strange obsession of some faiths that the acceptance of a particular religious metaphysics is necessary for salvation, and non-acceptance thereof is a heinous sin meriting eternal punishment in hell.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#8. It's hard to see yourself changing until you're so far from the person you used to be that it's hard to remember ever being them at all.

Kaitlyn Oruska

#9. Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated ...

Dieter Rams

#10. Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

James Lovelock

#11. No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

Alexander Herzen

#12. Show business imposes its own strict temporality: no matter how many CDs or DVDs we own, it would still have been better to have been there, to have seen the living performers in the richness of their being and to have participated, however briefly, in the glory of their performance.

Larry McMurtry

#13. Parents bobble between a nostalgia-infused yearning for their children to play and fear that time spent playing is time lost to more practical pursuits.

Robin Marantz Henig

#14. For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. He is the soul of antique Aegyptus, and bearer of tales from forgotten cities in Meroe and Ophir. He

H.P. Lovecraft

#15. And I said to myself, "Now I really don't see
Why trubles like this have to happen to me!

Dr. Seuss

#16. Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

John Berger

#17. Good morning, Meroe,' I said, dusting uselessly at my tracksuit pants. 'Might I interest you in today's special, pre-floured kitten?

Kerry Greenwood