"There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience."

-- John D. Barrow

#Reason Quotes #Should Quotes #Convenience Quotes

“You have to keep surprising your audience.”

Source : "Crash, bang, wallop what a picture" by Sam Delaney, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2009.
“My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.”
“A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure that stands without incident often conceals whatever lessons or caveats it might hold for the next generation of engineers.”
“I am not really thinking, I am just, working with the music. And people have asked me, why don't you say more, or why do you not have singers, or why don't you sing? I think it's because, if I would have words for what I am doing, I I could write. But I really don't. It's a whole different thing. And I think it's one of the beauty of instrumental music is that it can be background. It can be what people call "easy listening." But it's really one of those things where it's as much as you are willing to give it.”
“In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.”

Source : Benjamin Spock (1992). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care”
“Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.”
“I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down.”
“"You see," said Mr. Toots, "what I wanted in a wife was - in short, was sense. Money, Feeder, I had. Sense I - I had not, particularly."”

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