"I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him."

-- Sheena Easton

#Mother Quotes #Smart Quotes #Taken Quotes

“Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it.”
“Recovery from illness often seems like beginning life all over again.”
“A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.”

Source : How to Lie with Statistics (p. 9)
“Avoid the "hard-to-grasp" headline - the headline that requires thought and is not clear at first glance.”
“An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record. I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time. CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression. Side one and side two? That's a product of vinyl. But that's not necessarily dramatic form - you could argue that that was three acts.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days.”
“It may seem rash indeed to draw conclusions valid for the whole universe from what we can see from the small corner to which we are confined. Who knows that the whole visible universe is not like a drop of water at the surface of the earth? Inhabitants of that drop of water, as small relative to it as we are relative to the Milky Way, could not possibly imagine that beside the drop of water there might be a piece of iron or a living tissue, in which the properties of matter are entirely different.”

Source : "Space And Time".
“To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!”

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