"We all use dishwashers every day and yet none of us would say that we're experts on dishwashers, but somehow we all think we're experts on movies."

-- Brian Lindstrom

#Thinking Quotes #Experts Quotes #Use Quotes

“Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.”
“If you want to know the religion of a man, do not look at how much he prays and fasts, rather, look at how he treats people.”
“With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“When you reject the Creator, you worship the Creation (Ro 1:23).”
“In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it, if a hydrogen atom were magnified to the size of a church, an electron would be a speck of dust in that church.”
“Our forests are not for toilet paper. They are worth more standing than cut. That deserves to be defended, not only by native peoples but also by environmentalists.”
“A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.”
“For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).”

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