"One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow."

-- Meghan O'Rourke

#Grief Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
“I'm not a big slasher film fan.”
“My argument for that is: Why not create urban farms that are like parks, on public land? There actually is a park that I see as a model: Dover Street Park in Oakland. They took this park that has swings and playground-type things and turned it into a farm. There's not chickens, just annual vegetables interspersed with fruit trees. And it's super cool because you see people playing with their kids and then they go pick raspberries and some greens for dinner.”
“A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone has looked at him with eyes that, large or small, have won his soul.”
“But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.”
“It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.”
“My subject is war, and the pity of war.”
“My vision when we started Google 15 years ago was that eventually you wouldn't have to have a search query at all. You'd just have information come to you as you needed it. And [Google Glass] is now, 15 years later, sort of the first form factor that I think can deliver that vision.”

Source : "Google's Sergey Brin: smartphones are 'emasculating'" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2013.

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