"The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to me - both have the flash of enlightenment, the almost incredibly enhanced vision, and the ecstasy and euphoria of released tension."

-- Paul Halmos

#Joy Quotes #Secret Quotes #Vision Quotes

“When I see the Bill Shankly statue, I look at the sentiment on the base. It says: 'He made the people happyâ€™. Well now the modern Liverpool is making the fans and the city happy. And that makes me so proud.”
“Everybody is going to love me and this is not being cocky - this is just what I see.”
“I miss the ocean. I miss diving into the cold water and coming out a new man. On the road it's hard to get that feeling. Showers are okay, but there's nothing quite like being in the ocean.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.”

Source : 1995 On President Clinton's letter as a graduate student, 3 Dec 1969, to arrange RO TC enlistment to avoid being drafted for the Vietnam War, a position that was to haunt his future campaigning. First in His Class.
“There are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism.”

Source : "A chat about the book 'Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan'". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. October 5, 1999.
“To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.”
“I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category.”
“I often think that we are like the carp swimming contentedly in that pond. We live out our lives in our own "pond," confident that our universe consists of only the familiar and the visible. We smugly refuse to admit that parallel universes or dimensions can exist next to ours, just beyond our grasp. If our scientists invent concepts like forces, it is only because they cannot visualize the invisible vibrations that fill the empty space around us. Some scientists sneer at the mention of higher dimensions because they cannot be conveniently measured in the laboratory.”

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