"I have a computational quality to my mind, I suppose. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with video games. I reprogrammed games, and this eventually landed me a column in a magazine. That's how I got into print journalism: writing about video games."

-- David Mccandless

#Writing Quotes #Kids Quotes #Mind Quotes

“A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures.”
“I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.”

Source : Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.3
“A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.”
“When I have it in mind, I write it out.”
“Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.”

Source : Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”
“Your empty eyes seem to pass me by and leave me dancing with myself.”
“People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.”
“Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.”

Source : "The Last Lecture". Book by Jeffrey Zaslow and Randy Pausch, 2008.

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