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Category Archives: Quote

Kevin P. Hand on Oceans and Airport Security

eye of the storm image from outer space

Beneath that is a rocky seafloor, which may be teeming with hydrothermal vents and bizarre otherworldly organisms.
So the next time you’re in airport security and frustrated…

Posted byMorzanoJune 14, 2022Posted inQuoteTags:airport security, Europa, Galileo, Kevin P. Hand, NASA, oceans

Robert Hayden’s poem “American Journal”

much here is beautiful, dream like vistas reminding me of home

Posted byMorzanoMarch 24, 2022March 24, 2022Posted inQuoteTags:american journal, poem, poetry, robert hayden

Zweig on Memory

A sort of jellyfish glistening in the abysses of consciousness…

Posted byMorzanoDecember 17, 2021December 17, 2021Posted inQuoteTags:Quote, zweig

The tragic actor departs: a poem paired with oil paintings

And they are right, I think.
We all hate home
And having to be there.

Posted byMorzanoMay 13, 2021May 13, 2021Posted inQuoteTags:head of an old man, head of an old woman, larkin, poetry, the herdman

Carl Sagan on the dumbing down of America and how science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time.

Posted byMorzanoMarch 11, 2021March 11, 2021Posted inQuoteTags:1995, America, Carl sagan, dumb, dumbing, knowledge, manufacturing, science, superstition

Temptations while rich

woman wearing red parka jacket while standing on brooklyn bridge

Don’t brag about morals until you have money to fund your temptations.

Posted byMorzanoFebruary 17, 2021February 17, 2021Posted inQuoteTags:blow, cocaine, coke, morals, problem, robin, robin williams, temptations

Billy Collins on how no man is lonely while eating spaghetti

This time, I was at a corner table at Pasta Vivace!
on that side street next to the old music store.

Posted byMorzanoFebruary 8, 2021February 8, 2021Posted inQuoteTags:billy collins, christopher morly, poem, poetry, spaghetti, vivace

To be a scientist is to be naive

What is the cost of lies?

Posted byMorzanoJuly 17, 2020July 27, 2020Posted inQuoteTags:Chernobyl, government, ideology, religion, science, scientist, truth, Valery Legasoy

Optimism is a political act.

Perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better.

Posted byMorzanoJune 6, 2019January 12, 2022Posted inQuoteTags:advice, optimism, Philosophy, Quote, The Bright Green City

Once you strip away the platitudes, a life of passion and purpose will always cost, as T.S. Eliot reminds us, ‘Not less than everything.’”

Posted byMorzanoJune 1, 2019January 5, 2021Posted inQuoteTags:everything, hack biology, identity, life, living, meaning, passion, Philosophy, purpose, Quote, re-invent, research, study, T.S. Eliot, TS Eliot

Alan watts on the length of life

A long life spent in a miserable way.

Posted byMorzanoMay 28, 2019January 12, 2022Posted inQuoteTags:advice, Alan Watts, life, living, Philosophy, Quote, self help, self-help

Sail away from the safe harbor

Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Posted byMorzanoMay 28, 2019January 5, 2021Posted inQuoteTags:Quote, Sail

The same man who wrote “… I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”

Seek out some simple and true feeling.

Posted byMorzanoMay 16, 2019January 5, 2021Posted inQuoteTags:blessing, confidence, Letters, Letters to a young poet, love life, Maria, pain, Poet, Quote, Rainer, Rilke, solitute

Wise Living

Whatever and whoever.

Posted byMorzanoMay 6, 2019January 5, 2021Posted inQuoteTags:Omar Khayyam, Quote, Wisdom

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