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“Health is the greatest of God's gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider's web and the tiniest thing can make it snap, leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant.”
Source : Jennifer Worth (2005). “Shadows of the workhouse”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
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“This is the biggest problem in analytics today.”
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“Hence I feel no shame in asserting that this whole region engirdled by the moon, and the center of the earth, traverse this grand circle amid the rest of the planets in an annual revolution around the sun. Near the sun is the center of the universe. Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.”
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“You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.”
Source : Sarah Manguso (2009). “The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir”, p.191, Macmillan
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“Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.”
Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.25, Library of Alexandria
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“Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.”
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“Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.”
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“Everybody has questioned my heart, questioned my training ethics, this and that, but I never did something as cowardly as to take any sports-enhancement drug...That's one thing no one can ever say about me, you know? That I was a coward and took sports-enhancement drugs, because I was afraid I was going to get my ***** kicked in front of millions of people. So anybody out there who said I never had no heart, at least I wasn't a coward.”
