"To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up."

-- George Orwell

#Art Quotes #Latin Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“Many dog owners believe that as much as 60 percent of their pet's brain is set aside solely to demonstrate applications of the verb "to eat"-in both the active and passive forms.”
“What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?”
“Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk.”

Source : Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.”

Source : "On purposeful systems (1972)". "Thinking about Quality: Progress, Wisdom, and the Deming Philosophy". Book by Clare Crawford-Mason and Lloyd Dobyns, p. 40, 1994.
“I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.”
“Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.”

Source : Song: Precious Illusions, Album: Under Rug Swept, 2002
“The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to let your heart grow wider and deeper. When your love is truly giving and receiving, those whom you love will not leave your heart even when they depart from you. The pain of rejection, absence, and death can become fruitful. Yes, as you love deeply the ground of your heart will be broken more and more, but you will rejoice in the abundance of the fruit it will bear.”
“I'm sitting on the stile. Mary, Where we sat side by side.”

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