"In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it."

-- Ira Glass

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“Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color but the structure that constitutes its essence.”
“I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.”
“[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define "serendipity" as] the art of profiting from unexpected occurrences. When you do things in that way you get unexpected results. Then you do something else and you get unexpected results in another line, and you do that on a third line and then all of a sudden you see that one of these lines has something to do with the other. Then you make a discovery that you never could have made by going on a direct road.”
“We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value.”
“No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.”
“As the children were sitting there eating pears, a girl came walking along the road from town. When she saw the children she stopped and asked, "Have you seen my papa go by?" "M-m-m," said Pippi. "How did he look? Did he have blue eyes?" "Yes," said the girl. "Medium large, not too tall and not too short?" "Yes," said the girl. "Black hat and black shoes?" "Yes, exactly," said the girl eagerly. "No, that one we haven't seen," said Pippi decidedly.”
“What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.”

Source : Walter De la Mare (1997). “The Return”, p.121, Courier Corporation
“I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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