"While the official productivity data look impressive, alternative measures that are equally reasonable show a much more subdued picture."

“I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.”

Source : FaceBook post by Steven Millhauser from Oct 23, 2016

“I’ve been looking for a feeling like that everywhere I go. I’ve been waiting for someone to see all the good in me at every truck stop and intersection along the way. I’ve been waiting all my life for the moment to arrive when I can just stop. Stop looking”

“I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer.”

“All blues singers are great liars.”

“Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things?”

Source : "Philosophical Papers". Book by J. L. Austin, edited by James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, p. 38, 1979.

“The most difficult thing for us seems to be to give of ourselves, to do away with selfishness. If we really love someone, nothing is too difficult for us to do for that individual. There is no real happiness in having or getting unless we are doing it for the purpose of giving it to others. Half the world seems to be following the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness-many think it consists of having and getting and being served, when really happiness is found in serving others.”

“I say it's a girls' world.”

Source : "Women dominate top Grammy categories", www.cnn.com. February 27, 2002.

“Nice is OK when it's among other things but never when it stands alone”