"A beautiful word in the middle of a sentence can sometimes reduce me to tears in an interview, and when I'm reading, too. I've sometimes wondered whether I'm at the point of tears all the time because I use my eyes so much that they're strained and on the verge of tears anyway."

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Source : Interview with Sarah Fay, believermag.com. June 1, 2010.

Michael Silverblatt

#Beautiful Quotes #Reading Quotes #Eye Quotes

“As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.”
“Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.”
“Somewhere along the way we have subtly and tragically taken the costly command of Christ to go, baptize, and teach all nations and mutated it into a comfortable call for Christians to come, be baptized, and listen in one location.”
“An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.”
“The more intelligent, the less sane”
“With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.”
“There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.”
“Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with the other words in perfect syntax. There is no place for verbosity or carelessness. To become fluent in a computer lnaguage demands almost the antithesis of modern loose thinking. It requires many interactive sessions, the hands-on use of the device. You do not learn a foreign language from a book, rather you have to live in the country for year to let the langauge become an automatic part of you, and the same is true for computer languages.”

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