quotes archive.

[sarah3000]

quotes archive.

I've seen a few of these around here and there and I thought it was a good idea.
This is a post for quotes, sayings, and things I don't want to forget.
Feel free to post your favourite quotes as well.
 "A book of quotations, can never be complete." ~Robert M. Hamilton 

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[sarah3000]

I've been thinking about what Chris would have wanted me to say today. The advice he'd give me, which'd be something like, "know what, babe? Fuck it. These guys know all about me. Tell them about someone else." So I thought I'd tell you about a hero of Chris's: a man called Captain Joe Kittinger. In 1960, climbing into a foil balloon, Captain Joe ascended 32 kilometres into the stratosphere. And then, armed only with a parachute, he jumped out. He fell for four minutes and thirty-six seconds, reaching seven hundred and forty miles per hour before opening his parachute five kilometres above the Earth. It had never been done before, and it's never been done since. He did it just because he could. And that's why Chris loved him. Because the thing about Chris was, he said yes. He said yes to everything. He loved everyone. And he was the bravest boy-man-I knew. And that was-he flung himself out of a foil balloon every day. Because he could. Because he was. And that's why-and that's why we loved him.
~ Jal, Skins

[sarah3000]

I'd been fascinated by photography,
how a snapshot can freeze a scene
and turn a piece of three-dimensional
coloured, moving reality, full of sound,
scented, tinted with emotion and anger,
into something flat and motionless,
silent, permanent, like an art print,
and show you things you couldn't really see,
tiny details, the blur of frozen movement,
an expression that flitted across a face.
~John Tranter, Floor of Heaven

[sarah3000]

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
~Albert Einstein

[musicislove210]

No one sees what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

[sarah3000]

Throw a stranger an unexpected smile.
~Imogen Heap