"It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Garden Quotes #Trying Quotes #Use Quotes

“I'd just gotten into Los Angeles from Texas, where I live, and the phone rang and it was the guy calling about the Willie Nelson video. I was totally excited about it.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.”
“Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.”
“In our imaginations we can go anywhere. Travel with me to Redwall in Mossflower country.”
“The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.”
“When the subconscious mind must chose between deeply rooted emotions and logic, emotions will almost always win.”
“When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself.”

Source : Jef Raskin (2000). “The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems”, p.67, Addison-Wesley Professional
“I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.”

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