"One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions."

-- Grace Hopper

#Experts Quotes #Measurement Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.”
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
“I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an inefficient way to write a book, though I found it exciting.”
“Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.”

Source : Walter Moers (2008). “The City of Dreaming Books”, p.358, The Overlook Press
“Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.”
“It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.”
“It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.”
“Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.”

Source : Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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