"Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead."

-- P.J. Wolfson

#Technology Quotes #Men Quotes #Long Quotes

“The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.”
“Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.”
“That was a very natural process because as I was creating the animatic I added music clips as reference of the kind of music I wanted in the film. These were from musicians like NanÃ¡ Vasconcelos and Barbatuques, the body percussion group.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Coming up through high school, coaches would tell me not to swing so hard. It's the only way I know. It just happens.”
“Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.”
“Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland journey, conspired~ to make San Francisco a city of artists.”
“I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to lives either of narrowest toil or senseless luxury and vanity, and then sneer at the smallness of our aims, the pettiness of our thoughts, the puerility of our conversation!”

Source : Frances Power Cobbe (1882). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”
“..."And then we played Ping-Pongâ€”â€ â€œNot pool? I always assumed he was a billiards manâ€”I mean, itâ€™s so handy the way he keeps a stick up hisâ€””

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