When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there was no friction?' Answer: 'Everything on earth would fly into space from the centrifugal force of revolution.' That was my mood.
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Related When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train... GARDNER DOZOIS The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER I lay there with my mind running amuck, on the brink of madness. And somehow, gradually, early Sunda... JOHN MARSDEN From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss t... BETTY SMITH But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER Sometimes I felt as if there were no tomorrows, that everything, my whole life, was crammed into one... JULIE ANNE PETERS Sometimes I felt as if there were no tomorrows, that everything, my whole life, was crammed into one... JULIE ANNE PETERS There was no foresight on my part. But if you had walked in on that day, you would have known immedi... BEN YOUNGER I had a sneaking suspicion that time was not constant, but I guess I could never prove it. I suppose... MARK A. ROEDER When I put down Lance Armstrong’s book, I understood something profoundly. Edie, if you can move, ... EDIE LITTLEFIELD SUNDBY I was very happy with my ride because it was a totally different course to Bardolino. I like big roa... JUDITH ARNDT My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a... MARTIN DONOVAN I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the Wor... TOM WOLFE The consensus was that this was the perfect time to send this letter. There had been others wonderin... JACK POWELL If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first. MARK TWAIN When I put down Lance Armstrong’s book, I understood something profoundly. Edie, if you can move, ... EDIE LITTLEFIELD SUNDBY I was struggling on the greens (early on the back nine) and had lost a little bit of confidence and ... DONALD NO I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint... CHRIS STAPLETON Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was ki... ETGAR KERET When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal.... AUDREY TAUTOU I looked at my friend. I don’t know what I had done to deserve her friendship but she was always t... AMANDA STONE From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss t... BETTY SMITH I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack. SIMON PEGG There was a strong gust of wind that suddenly blew into me and I lost my line. The snow was blowing ... BENJAMIN RAICH It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they... ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I woul... SIMON SINEK At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped... LANCE ARMSTRONG I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943. J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON I was born in a blender. LORNA LUFT I was born 'neath a clouded star. JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead. GEORGETTE MOSBACHER I was born to be funny. BUDDY HACKETT I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL The three of us stood there for a minute. I don’t know what Stew was thinking, and the filing cabi... LEMONY SNICKET My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: ... TWYLA THARP If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil. JOSEPH DE MAISTRE If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil. JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it? ... No Face... a pe... DEYTH BANGER There was a mood on campus that this was going to be the next Michigan State. JOHN NEWTON Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent. KLAUS KINSKI The opening screen of T'Rain was a frank rip-off of what you saw when you booted up Google Earth. Ri... NEAL STEPHENSON I went through that phase where I wanted to almost be different than my brother. Just kind of argued... ELI MANNING I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I kn... ALAN BALL During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the ha... L. FRANK BAUM If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, woul... DOUGLAS ADAMS Little by little, I would get snared by the world out there. This was the first step; first I say ye... HARUKI MURAKAMI We had anticipated when we were working on that document that what was going to happen was there was... BARBARA DIXON We had anticipated when we were working on that document that what was going to happen was there was... BARBARA DIXON From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be... STEPHEN LABERGE I was a little concerned about what was going to happen on the first turn, because it seemed there w... DAVID HOFMANS When I saw what a mess everything was in I asked for my money back on the ticket. I would have felt ... HENRI MATISSE From my window I watched the full moon—a moon that reminded me of Brett—become shadowed, little ... IRENE HUNT When I was reading book six, there were parts I was reading and going, 'Oh, I would love to do that.... DAN RADCLIFFE It felt like I was living in two worlds. There was one world which was a daylight world and another ... LAURIE MATTHEW It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windsw... ANNE RICE The wickedness of the world was a part of creation, I knew this, and the Angel of Death had been cre... ALICE HOFFMAN Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn't quantify his sort of influen... DUSTIN YELLIN Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�... CHERYL R COWTAN I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, 'You know, there... GEORGE LUCAS My strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I de... JASON MRAZ If there was a miracle, we'd get our bikes back and everything would go on, no questions asked. JOE SKIDD I'm here!" I said..."I'm read to go home!" As if they couldn't see me. As if I couldn't remember wha... CAROLYN TURGEON I was in the book, and the book was in my head, and as long as I stayed inside my head, I could go o... PAUL AUSTER Don't be special." That's what I would say to my younger self if I could pinpoint the moment when I ... LEILA SALES There is no way, if I was running ABC, I would have kept me on the air. JIMMY KIMMEL I had no idea! No thought there was another human on this earth with my blood. And, I thought she's ... HOWARD HOLM When I presented at the Oscars last year, everyone would say to me, 'Where's your husband? Is there ... GWYNETH PALTROW When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at... MAE JEMISON From this day forward, I vowed to myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, not God, ... V.C. ANDREWS There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion o... ERIC KANDEL I was there at the birth of my son and had the extraordinary feeling when I first saw him of thinkin... ROBERT POWELL The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. MARK WAHLBERG Had I been older, I would've never been able to pull it off because I would've analyzed it t... FRANK ABAGNALE But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And ... JASON MRAZ Didn't I already answer this? ... That would not make sense. Nobody was breaking any laws. They were... ROBERT BLAKE When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and ... EDDIE VEDDER I used to build lofts in SoHo back when there was nothing there. I had a stoop on West Broadway betw... TIM DALY There seems to be plenty of it,' was all I would answer, when the investigator asked me to say what ... ALDOUS HUXLEY I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made hi... CHRISTA MCAULIFFE There was always the risk this would happen. LEILA SADLER When I left Haiti, I was eight. I went to the Congo where my father was working. The only images tha... RAOUL PECK I would say my first golf memory was asking who Arnold Palmer was when he was always on the Pennzoil... MIKE GREENBERG This I would wish, that there was no time or sleep. No more past, or future, and everything we did w... ANTHONY LICCIONE There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those ... MICHELLE OBAMA Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this ... ANDREA CORR You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors ... CHRIS HEMSWORTH When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, th... NAOMI WOLF I loved it. It was fun saying hi to people. When someone would ask what I was doing there, I would s... DEBORAH NORVILLE And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There s... ALDOUS HUXLEY You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her... TONY DUNGY Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf... ALICE SEBOLD There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing dem... CONDOLEEZZA RICE STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book? RICHIE:I did decide ... NEIL STRAUSS He opened his mouth. The words were there. He was about to say them when a jolt of terror went throu... CASSANDRA CLARE Working on 'Honeymoon,' an independent movie, was almost like working on TV with the space, ... ROSE LESLIE Leaving the game on Monday, I had no idea (who would start this Sunday), but I knew there was an opp... CHARLIE BATCH That was the key point. There was everything in this match, a lot of turnarounds, but I knew how to ... GUILLERMO CORIA When I was younger, I had this recurring dream where Ricky Schroder would ride his little train into... BARRET SWATEK When I started I knew it was a matter of when, not if, I would get fired. That's because that was ju... LAVELL EDWARDS
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HARUKI MURAKAMI Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. HARUKI MURAKAMI Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a... HARUKI MURAKAMI If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. I... HARUKI MURAKAMI The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no m... HARUKI MURAKAMI I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things... HARUKI MURAKAMI Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana ? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, livin... HARUKI MURAKAMI No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, someth... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting. HARUKI MURAKAMI You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get. HARUKI MURAKAMI When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unh... HARUKI MURAKAMI George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don... HARUKI MURAKAMI You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes yo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at ... HARUKI MURAKAMI If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets. HARUKI MURAKAMI These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say somethi... HARUKI MURAKAMI From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we t... HARUKI MURAKAMI Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you. HARUKI MURAKAMI He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was... HARUKI MURAKAMI The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anyth... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted. HARUKI MURAKAMI The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words. HARUKI MURAKAMI Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the ... HARUKI MURAKAMI The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the... HARUKI MURAKAMI A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose ... HARUKI MURAKAMI They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were n... HARUKI MURAKAMI Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off. HARUKI MURAKAMI But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. HARUKI MURAKAMI If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Night... HARUKI MURAKAMI I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you nee... HARUKI MURAKAMI Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. HARUKI MURAKAMI Nah, I shook my head, things that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere, that’s all. W... HARUKI MURAKAMI We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died... HARUKI MURAKAMI It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical HARUKI MURAKAMI I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book;... HARUKI MURAKAMI Maybe I am fated to always be alone, Tsukuru found himself thinking. People came to him, but in the ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. HARUKI MURAKAMI The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be lear... HARUKI MURAKAMI People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. HARUKI MURAKAMI Wherever there's hope there's a trial. HARUKI MURAKAMI The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's... HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm just ordinary guy, ordinary family, ordinary education, ordinary face, ordinary exam results, or... HARUKI MURAKAMI He wasn't normally conscious of it, but there was one part of his body that was extremely sensitive,... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are ... HARUKI MURAKAMI