We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.
—William Shatner
Hoje em dia já ninguém lá vai, aquilo está cheio de gente
Artigos da categoria “Outras Coisas”
O medo de sentir as oportunidades diminuirem enquanto a idade avança.
What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
—Carl Sagan, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, 1980
I never thought I’d live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones giving the middle finger to the establishment, and the left wing becoming the sniveling self-righteous twatty ones going around shaming everyone.
—John Lydon
É aquilo que nos lembramos que devíamos ter dito, quando já saímos e vamos a meio das escadas…
Em francês há o l’esprit de l’escalier, que é a mesma coisa.
L’homme sensible, comme moi, tout entier à ce qu’on lui objecte, perd la tête et ne se retrouve qu’au bas de l’escalier.
—Denis Diderot, a propósito de ter ficado sem fala num jantar com uma observação de Jacques Necker (sobre Diderot ver também “O Efeito Diderot”)