"Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps."

-- Ambrose Bierce

#Way Quotes #Garbage Quotes #Speech Quotes

“I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.”

Source : "Cee Lo Green: 'I've been such an oddball my whole life'". Interview with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.
“Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.”

Source : Preface (written 1918)
“Munroe stared at the sky. Cursed her weakness, her inability to block out what it would mean to knowingly deliver the innocent into the same hell that had birthed her to life. In this moment of decision she condemned to death the one she would risk anything to save. To the night, Munroe whispered good-bye. Opened the floodgates to Gehenna-that place of the wicked, that place of the dead-and here in this deserted spot, she buried her soul.”
“Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.”
“Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me.”
“To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 25, 2015
“I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you think you are, even who you had prided yourself on being. When all those around you say they simply don't recognize you any longer, that's the real compliment.”
“When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a sweet taste. The sweetness resides neither in the C, nor in the O, nor in the H; it resides in the pattern that emerges from their interaction. It is an emergent property. Moreover, strictly speaking, is not a property of the chemical bonds. It is a sensory experience that arises when the sugar molecules interact with the chemistry of our taste buds, which in turns causes a set of neurons to fire in a certain way. The experience of sweetness emerges from that neural activity.”

Source : David Diamond, Fritjof Capra (2007). “Theatre for Living: The Art and Science of Community-based Dialogue”, p.169, Trafford Publishing

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