~ Jennifer Berne, On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein
Category: Urban Tales
A boy rides a bicycle down a dusty road. But in his mind, he envisions himself traveling at a speed beyond imagining, on a beam of light. This brilliant mind will one day offer up some of the most revolutionary ideas ever conceived. From a boy endlessly fascinated by the wonders around him.
~ Jennifer Berne, On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein Category: Urban Tales That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.
~ Ellen Hopkins, Identical Category: Urban Tales If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff?
~ George Carlin Category: Wings Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
~ Stephen King Category: Urban Landscape There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we’re not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge.
~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead Category: People A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.
~ China Miéville, King Rat Category: Urban Tales The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
~ John Green, Looking for Alaska Category: Urban Tales The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson Category: Necropolis It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
~ Lou Holtz Category: Urban Tales Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
~ Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost Category: Wings Sing loud for the sunshine, pray hard for the rain.
~ Led Zeppelin, Down By The Seaside Category: Urban Tales Nick: Where am I?
Kyrian: Hospital. Nick: Really? No kidding? And here I thought I was at McDonald’s. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infinity Category: Urban Landscape I’m not waiting until my hair turns white to become patient and wise. Nope, I’m dying my hair tonight.
~ Jarod Kintz, This Book is not for sale Category: Urban Tales Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre Category: Urban Tales I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
~ Voltair Category: Urban Tales It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.
~ Marilynne Robinson, Gilead Category: Urban Tales ...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
~ Terry Pratchett Category: People All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
~ Leo Tolstoy Category: Urban Tales A selfie is a self-portrait photograph or group photograph featuring the photographer, typically taken with a hand-held camera or camera phone. Initially popular with young people, selfies gained wider popularity over time. By the end of 2012, Time magazine considered selfie one of the ‘top 10 buzzwords’ of that year.
Selfies have also been taken beyond Earth and include those taken in space by astronauts and by Curiosity rover of itself on Mars. Category: People Like most animals, we spent a large part of our lives engaged in the three Fs of basic survival.
Feeding, fighting and... reproduction. ~ Kelley Armstrong, Stolen Category: Urban Tales Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
~ John Osborne Category: Urban Tales The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.
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