"After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field."

-- W. Richard Stevens

#Fields Quotes #Graduates Quotes #Programming Quotes

“I think that's the job of the writer, right? Not to introduce new ideas or feelings, but to name the ones we know most intimately but are afraid of speaking, or don't have the words. That's what I find most powerful anyway.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where Iâ€™d found him â€“ not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend. Or that you could slip inside the skin of another. Or travel to another place with marshes, and where, to our ears, the bad people spoke like pirates.”

Source : Lloyd Jones (2011). “Mister Pip”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com
“There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there related to Palestine and to Israel that we ought to be trying to deal with. And there's a great deal of targets in the Philippines, Indonesia. You name it, there are a number of places where there are targets that we ought to be trying to deal with.”

Source : "Transcript: Lawrence Eagleburger on FNS". Interview With Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2002.
“Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does not come from a voice ï¿½out thereï¿½ calling me to be something I am not. It comes from a voice ï¿½in hereï¿½ calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God.”
“While I'd like to make movies that are uplifting, there's always that part of you that goes, 'I want to play the evil guy because it's not me.' So anything that is not me is a challenge, and if I rise to the challenge, then I've kind of proved myself.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.”
“For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however different, (and He rejoices in their differences and by no means wishes to iron them out) must share the common life, complementing and helping one another precisely by their differences.”

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