"Each personâ€™s life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything that came before."

-- Suketu Mehta

#Shapes Quotes #Retrospect Quotes #Events Quotes

“If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it.”
“My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.”
“I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.”

Source : "State of the Union with Candy Crowley", www.cnn.com. December 8, 2013.
“Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates.”

Source : Clive Ponting (1990). “Secrecy in Britain”
“AA makes Scientology look credible,”
“I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials, burghers, potboys, and all kinds and sorts of ladies whose brains still seem somewhat deranged from their brief exposure to his lordship. And though my companions are careful to tell people that I am that dreadful being, an English magician, I am clearly nothing in comparison to an English poet and everywhere I go I enjoy the reputation- quite new to me, I assure you- of the quiet, good Englishman, who makes no noise and is no trouble to any one...”
“The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.”

Source : Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.150, Transaction Publishers
“I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.”

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