"I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place."

-- Greg Kinnear

#Moving Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Parent Quotes

“Simplification seems to be the removal of objects for the goal of making a graphic as clean and uncluttered as possible. Whereas, with optimization, it feels like there's more intelligence in that. It maintains the usability, but tries to distill something down to its essence. But with some data-sets you have to be careful because, as with linear, print journalism, it's easy to shave off facts that don't quite fit the flow.”
“If your path had been smooth, you would have depended upon your own surefootedness; but God roughened the path, so you have to take hold of His hand. If the weather had been mild, you would have loitered along the watercourses, but at the first howl of the storm you quickened your pace heavenward and wrapped around you the warm robe of Saviour's righteousness.”

Source : Thomas De Witt Talmage (1878). “The worried housekeeper, and other sermons”
“Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian.”
“Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.”
“We need to have lectures about why we can't have every day things like mayonnaise, ketchup and Coke.”

Source : "Paolo Di Canio ridiculed as 'managerial charlatan' by Martin O'Neill" by Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2013.
“My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory. I have seen it six or seven times, and I still cry.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Feb 18, 2014
“Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.”

Source : Samuel Prout, Rudolph Ackermann (1838). “Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, Etc: As Applicable to Landscape Painting”, p.7
“What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.”

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

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