"There's a place down the street; Seven Xs. What does that mean? Maybe it's... girls without skin."

-- Tom Waits

#Girl Quotes #Mean Quotes #Skins Quotes

“Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and fade to oblivion. The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying. So fleeting was speech that the rare phenomenon of the echo, a sound heard once and then again, seemed a sort of magic.”
“The less explaining you do the less people speculate.”
“People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.”
“Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.”
“One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.”

Source : "Leonard Mlodinow On Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior". Interview with Debra Ollivier, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2012.
“The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In order to be open we have to renounce ourselves, in a sense we have to die to our image of ourselves, our autonomy, our fixation upon our self-willed identity.”
“The only reward in this game is winning. It's no fun to practice; it's no fun to play and lose.”
“But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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