"Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom."

-- Bernard DeVoto

#Wisdom Quotes #Airplane Quotes #Player Quotes

“Christianity is such a silly religion.”
“Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.”

Source : "Mona Simpson Transforms Her Rich Personal Life Into Powerful Fiction" by Ruth S.Barrett, www.elle.com. May 2, 2014.
“Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction.”
“Cooking is like decorating - it never bores me.”

Source : "Denning's Pot-au-Feu – A decorator indulges his passion for cuisine bourgeoise", by Suzanne Hart, House & Garden, March 1992.
“Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public.”

Source : "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.
“Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.”

Source : Kamala Harris (2010). “Smart on Crime”, p.13, Chronicle Books
“Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.”
“One of the first things was I made Arlo [the Apatosaurus] a younger character. And then when I was that age (around 11 or 12), what was I like? Sweat pants, turtle-neck kid; didn't know anything about fashion or style, the culture of the world. I was very sheltered.”

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