"Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife" – Mary Roach

Life quotes May 21, 2010

“Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife” – Mary Roach

"That momentum has continued at this show. We’ve seen orders from dynamic markets like India. Another rapidly growing market is Indonesia." – Anthony Phillips

“That momentum has continued at this show. We’ve seen orders from dynamic markets like India. Another rapidly growing …

"Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded." – Dale Spender

“Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity …

"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest." – Mahatma Gandhi

“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.” – Mahatma Gandhi

"Forget candle, she lives the afterlife like a barn door in the wind." – Solon

“Forget candle, she lives the afterlife like a barn door in the wind.” – Solon

"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap" – Jacques Barzun

“Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, …

"Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent." – Dalai Lama

“Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by …

"PIPPIN: I didn’t think it would end this way.<br/><br/>GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.<br/><br/>PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what?<br/><br/>GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.<br/><br/>PIPPIN: Well, that isn’t so bad.<br/><br/>GANDALF: No. No, it isn’t." – Lord of The Rings

“PIPPIN: I didn’t think it would end this way. GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death …

"She’s just a dynamic performer. She was unsure if she could still do gymnastics like she used to. This year, I think she’s started believing that she can." – Carlos Fuentes

“She’s just a dynamic performer. She was unsure if she could still do gymnastics like she used to. …

"We are always getting ready to live, but never living" – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We are always getting ready to live, but never living” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A person’s mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person." – Potter Stewart

“A person’s mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause …