"I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny."

-- Daniel Johns

#Trying Quotes #Way Quotes #Corny Quotes

“The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.”
“There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity never fail to take a deep interest. The progress of the human mind is never traced with such a lively interest as through the steps by which it perfects a great invention; and there is certainly no invention respecting which this minute information will be more eagerly sought after, than in the case of the steam-engine.”
“It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.”

Source : "The Ill-Defined Plot" by John Jeremiah Sullivan, www.newyorker.com. October 6, 2014.
“I'm a huge Dallas Mavs fan. What I love about Dirk Nowitzki is he has just as much talent as everyone else, if not more, and he never toots his own horn. He's this silent warrior.”
“Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience”
“Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.”
“I'm expressing the feelings of mankind today through the Blue Dog. The dog is always having problems of the heart, of growing up, the problems of life.Â The dog looks at us and asks, 'Why am I here? What am I doing? Where am I going?' Those are the same questions we ask ourselves. People look at the paintings, and the paintings speak back to them.”
“Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.”

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