Posts Tagged ‘quote’

You Are All Stardust

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand prob­a­bly came from a dif­fer­ent star than your right hand.

It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics : You are all star­dust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the ele­ments — the car­bon, nitro­gen, oxy­gen, iron, all the things that mat­ter for evo­lu­tion for life — weren’t cre­ated at the begin­ning of time.

They were cre­ated in the nuclear fur­naces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode.

So, for­get Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”

- Lawrence Krauss

via Space Col­lec­tive

The Key to Inspiration

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Ask­ing ‘what if …’ or ‘why not …’ or just try­ing some­thing that may not ‘make sense’ on paper is the sim­ple and always avail­able key to find­ing new con­nec­tions in fla­vor — and expand­ing one’s world.” — Sally Schneider

That par­tic­u­lar quote can be applied to pretty much every­thing in life and I love it.

via Eat Make Read

Words of Men

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Purists will com­plain that we’ve sapped our lan­guage of its poetry by turn­ing it into a blunter instru­ment. The purists are wrong. We’re still poets. We’ve just traded son­nets for haiku. Today, the romance of our lan­guage is found in its small­est con­struc­tions, in its syl­la­bles and how they sound when we put them together, sim­ply, qui­etly. Our words have white space around them. That’s where we’ve become artists again.”

This is from an arti­cle in Esquire Mag­a­zine … wow, what a great quote.

via Meow Milk