"I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."

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Source : TV Guide, March 31, 1984.

Robert McCloskey

#Believe Quotes #Communication Quotes #Knowledge Quotes

“While obsession with oneâ€™s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.”
“Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable...”
“When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.”

Source : "Tilting at Tree Bags" by Ian Frazier, www.motherjones.com. January 2001.
“What are you?" I whispered. He shrugged again. "Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel." He laughed. "Something like that.”
“...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.”
“But what right had I to these highest joys, when all around me was nothing but misery and struggle for a moldy bit of bread; when whatsoever I should spend to enable me to live in that world of higher emotions must needs be taken from the very mouths of those who grew the wheat and had not bread enough for their children?”
“I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.”
“Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier.”

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