"The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion."

-- Douglas Hofstadter

#Communication Quotes #Long Quotes #Coherence Quotes

“But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.”
“The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.”
“I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.”
“I would love to have a good deal to end the nuclear ambitions of the Iranians, but I don't trust the Iranians. They've been lying and cheating.”
“Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee”
“I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page of my novel was about.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make a single stroke between day and night: the precise moment does not matter. There was no painted sign to say: 'You are now entering Imperium.' Yet it was a very old road and the voice of history was saying: 'Whether you know it or not, the act of crossing may be irreversible.' And now, not far ahead, is a sign that reads: 'No U-turns.'”

Source : Garet Garrett (1961). “Rise of Empire”
“'Why me?' rarely produces a positive result, while 'How can I use this?' usually leads us in the direction of turning our difficulties into a driving force to make ourselves and the world better.”

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