"When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But I am comfortable talking in Spanish. I am not flawless or fluent, but I am comfortable. It takes me a day or two speaking a lot of Spanish to get back into a rhythm."

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Source : "No Spanish-speaking debate scheduled" by Kolten Parker, blog.chron.com. June 4, 2012.

David Dewhurst

#Talking Quotes #Two Quotes #Bolivia Quotes

“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
“This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme”
“As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.”
“In art class at school we learned how to draw tanks and soldiers opening fire at [Iranian leader Ayatollah] Khomeini and his beard. They didn't teach us the names of the flowers that grew around us in the city - wild flowers of all kinds and all colors. The math teacher used to whip the kids with his trouser belt. My father was constantly violent toward my mother for the most trivial reasons.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of truth and sincerity, is the principal fault I find in much of the work of modern painters.”
“The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.”

Source : Quoted in Goodrich Albert Pinkham Ryder (1959).
“A half marathon is a good way to have a bit of fun and race against those girls and learn a bit more about them.The world half marathon is a world championship at the end of the day and it's important. I've win it twice and it's a quality event.”
“Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here.”

Source : Song: Silent Legacy, Album: Yes I Am

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