"Light sufferings give us leisure to complain."

“One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.”

Source : "The Apollonian Clockwork". Book by Louis Andriessen, 1983.

“Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.”

“I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.”

“All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.”

“Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.”

“Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.”

“There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.”

Source : Henry M. Cist (2004). “The Army of the Cumberland: The Army and Navy in The Civil War”, p.227, Digital Scanning Inc

“Watching the ball is always a good starting point.”