"Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!"

-- Horace Walpole

#Wise Quotes #Done Quotes #Half Quotes

“Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.”

Source : "Fifty years on, the silence of Rachel Carson's spring consumes us" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2012.
“I tell everybody the same thing: You have to make every dish so when you taste it, you should remember it when you go home.”
“England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played like s**t. Here's my book.'”

Source : "Barton: fans are vicious, misled and shocking" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2007.
“It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.”
“Writing is still on my slate.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.”
“I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.”
“The novice-friendly software is more like a misbehaving dog: it ***** on the floor, it destroys things, and stinks - the novice-friendly software embodies the opposite of what computer people have dreamed of for decades: artificial stupidity. It's more human.”

Source : "Read the fine manual, please". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. November 14, 1997.

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