"That little white ball is always staring back at you, daring you to make a mistake."

-- Sam Snead

#Mistake Quotes #White Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows.”

Source : James Sheridan KNOWLES, Robert Shelton MACKENZIE (1838). “The Dramatic Works of J. S. K. With a Memoir by R. Shelton Mackenzie”
“Firstly, the current government officials are in power for their currency, but I'm informing you for your new currency.”
“Men cannot think like dogs.... [There exists] a sharp difference in the mental capacity of humans and canines. For example, a human who is given an intricate problem will spend all day trying to solve it, but a canine will have the sense to give up and do something else instead.”
“The spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his rapidity; he was very, very fast. And like the modern computer, which no longer bothers to retrieve the logarithm of 11 from its memory (but, instead, computes the logarithm of 11 each time it is needed), Johnny didn't bother to remember things. He computed them. You asked him a question, and if he didn't know the answer, he thought for three seconds and would produce and answer.”
“I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.”
“Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This." I said. And then I kissed him.”
“Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.”
“Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.”

Source : Beaumont Newhall (1982). “The history of photography: from 1839 to the present”, Bulfinch Press

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