How is your book doing?" or "How many copies have you sold?" are the questions for a salesman. To a writer, you better ask "What did you write today?".
Shubham ChoudharyTags: fact deep-thoughts writing-life
A few years after I gave some lectures for the freshmen at Caltech (which were published as the Feynman Lectures on Physics), I received a long letter from a feminist group. I was accused of being anti-women because of two stories: the first was a discussion of the subtleties of velocity, and involved a woman driver being stopped by a cop. There's a discussion about how fast she was going, and I had her raise valid objections to the cop's definitions of velocity. The letter said I was making the women look stupid.
The other story they objected to was told by the great astronomer Arthur Eddington, who had just figured out that the stars get their power from burning hydrogen in a nuclear reaction producing helium. He recounted how, on the night after his discovery, he was sitting on a bench with his girlfriend. She said, "Look how pretty the stars shine!" To which he replied, "Yes, and right now, I'm the only man in the world who knows how they shine." He was describing a kind of wonderful loneliness you have when you make a discovery.
The letter claimed that I was saying a women is incapable of understanding nuclear reactions.
I figured there was no point in trying to answer their accusations in detail, so I wrote a short letter back to them: "Don't bug me, Man!
Tags: misinterpreted ignorance deep-thoughts humor-inspirational misinformation ignoring-issues two-sides-to-the-story judgmentality richard-feynman misinterpretation action-over-thought incapable-of-interpreted incapable-of-understanding
Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like.
Jack HandeyTags: humor deep-thoughts
The hands of fate keep time on a heart-shaped clock.
Darren ShanTags: fate deep-thoughts watch deep freak cirque-du-freak cirque du harkat mulds
Like almost every truly horrible thing that has ever happened in the history of our world, the end also began with a kiss.
Dennis SharpeTags: deep-thoughts end-of-the-world best-opening-lines truer-words-were-never-spoken hauntingly-beautiful
What's still squirming in our bones when everything else is stripped?
Isaac MarionTags: deep-thoughts
You are to my soul what God is to a mother praying for her child at the altar.
Malak El HalabiTags: love deep-thoughts
It would have been worth the complaint and subsequent chewing out I would have received, if the events of the night just wouldn't have happened. I would later look back on this night and pray that things had ended differently. You can't change events that are completely out of your control, though.
Even so, anything would have been preferable to that one moment when you find your reality has just been blown to pieces and would never be the same again. That's assuming you live to survive it.
Tags: deep-thoughts
Don't go out there,” I yelled out, suddenly afraid for the man outside to figure out the way in. For whatever reason, so far he hadn't. To my way of thinking, if someone isn't in their right mind enough to figure out how to get into a store, they didn't have any business being there in the first place.
Rose WyntersTags: deep-thoughts common-sense zombies-life
Nobody should have to die like these people had. I didn't know each of their circumstances, but I had a good guess. These people had died in terror, horror, and pain. More than likely, they had to watch their friends or loved ones die at the same time. Their last moments would have been spent knowing that they would come back and do the same to anyone they could get their hands on, even people they'd spent their life loving.
It was not the way any human being should have to go.
Tags: tragedy deep-thoughts survival sad-but-true zombies last-moments
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