"The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability."

-- Jerry Pournelle

#Life And Love Quotes #Information Quotes #Importance Quotes

“I was so honored when Diane Sawyer named me 'Person of the Week,' and like I told her, 'Diane, I love my daughter.' I cried when I found out when she told me she was gay when she was 17 because of the judgment.”

Source : "Marie Osmond will never get over son's suicide, cried when daughter said she was gay". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. April 4, 2013.
“We've been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney - with tax advantages and strategic partners - that we just weren't able to do.”
“Composition is interesting because, in a sense, you always have to let it go. Unless you're a true composer/performer, you're always sending a PDF and then someone else makes it. It's like instructions for a short story, faxed to every English student who's studying it.”
“No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.”
“There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.”
“If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.”
“A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force, all the optimism, expectancy, and passionate bloom of youth. We inhale its ardent aroma and, no matter what our ages, we feel young and nubile in a world aflame with desire.”
“Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.”

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