"A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality."

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Source : Any Number Can Play (1957) p. 105

Clifton Fadiman

#Dull Quotes #May Quotes #Milk Quotes

“Intention is for achievers. Hope is for the hopeless.”
“Be careful what you show the world. You never know when the wolf is watching.”
“Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.”

Source : "John Noble Talks FRINGE Series Finale, His Reaction to Reading the Final Script, the Last Day on Set, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2013.
“I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.”
“When I was 17 I got a guitar for my birthday and started discovering Bob Dylan and James Taylor and the whole '60s thing, and that made me want to make songs, to go beyond just playing an instrument. I needed to write I guess.”
“I'm just happy I got a hole-in-one for the first time in my life.”
“Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.”
“If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not enough to say that we are compelled to abandon only a "particular theory of inspiration..." We must go on to say that that "particular theory of inspiration" is the theory of the apostles and of the Lord, and that in abandoning it we are abandoning them.”

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