"A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldnt have happened without the social changes."

-- Steve Winwood

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Responsible Quotes

“But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.”
“The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they are uselessly separated. In the OED, for example, aardvarks are 19 volumes away from the zoo, yachts are 18 volumes from the beach, and wine is 17 volumes from the nearest corkscrew.”

Source : Mark Forsyth (2013). “The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language”, p.9, Penguin
“Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond”
“The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.”
“If you ask any economist, they'll tell you all the mortgage interest deduction does is raise the price of the house. So a couple is out looking at the house, they say, "Oh, we love this house, but we couldn't make the monthly payment." And the realtor says, "Yeah, but you're going to get a tax break." So people pay more than they would otherwise. You take a loss even though you're making a gain.”
“Realist artists should join together in a worldwide effort... Sharing it with each other and teaching it - that is the key to the success and never-ending beauty and harmony of Realism.”
“I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.”
“If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.”

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