"We are only syllables of the perfect Word."

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Source : Caryll Houselander, Thomas Hoffman (2000). “A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander”, p.2, Rowman & Littlefield

Caryll Houselander

#Faith Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“I'm a football player by trade. That's what I do, ... So I did everything I could to make myself a football player again.”
“I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.”
“Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.”
“I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.”

Source : "Lake Bell Dives Right In". Interview with Jillary Busis, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 29, 2011.
“But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.”

Source : Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. February 10, 2004.
“The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have toÂ prepare against a possible attack at several different points; and his forces being thus distributed inÂ many directions, the numbers we shall have to face at any given point will be proportionately few.”
“--Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you, do you consider yourself sane? --I do. --Well, there you have it. --But don't they also consider themselves sane? --I think they know. Deep down. That they're not sane. --How must that make them feel? --Terrible, I should think. They must fight ever more fiercely, in order to deny what they know to be true. That they are not sane.”
“While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet.”

Source : Leonard Shlain (1991). “Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light”, William Morrow & Company

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