"The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one."

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Source : Response to the feed "Scripting News for 12/20/2006", scripting.wordpress.com. December 20, 2006.

Douglas Crockford

#Wheels Quotes #Good Things Quotes

“It's hard enough to tell good stories about people who analyze information for a living. It's even harder to do a good show about people who think for a living.”

Source : "Rubicon executive producer Henry Bromell". Interview With Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. October 15, 2010.
“I've remained a supporter of the Obama administration, even at the height of my ordeal. There's a lot that he could do differently, but so much of what he's tried to do has been blocked by the Republican officeholders. I think that he could have been a much better president with more support. So, I'm still supportive of him.”
“Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving; you will never get there. Feelings take time to heal after the choice to forgive is made.”

Source : Neil T. Anderson (1997). “A Way of Escape: Freedom from Sexual Strongholds”, p.211, Harvest House Publishers
“I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.”
“Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.”

Source : Thomas Otway, Thomas Southerne, Mr. Joseph Trapp “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. V.”
“Everybody thinks that you go to Africa and you build a school, or you teach English, or you build a hospital. But actually all you need to do is play football with kids for six months and then after they've trusted you, you tell them about the truth of Aids, and that their grandmother didn't die from witchcraft, she died from Aids. And that's the biggest difference you can make.”
“Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?”
“I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.”

Source : Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.267, Golgotha Press

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