"The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the past has no use for clocks or appointments. It comes and goes as it pleases in our memory, camping out wherever the hell it damn well wants to in there. Untrustworthy, prone to exaggeration, biased- you wouldn't lend it ten cents, but it sure can be charming and seductive when it feels like it."

-- Jonathan Carroll

#Brother Quotes #Memories Quotes #Past Quotes

“Most people might think that I've come from a musical background, but nobody in my family was in any kind of band or played anything. I just picked up music from breakdancing really, that's what got me to listen to music, and in general I was just a creative guy.”
“The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at someone's bidding.”

Source : John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.138, Courier Corporation
“But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.”
“The TSA holds its screener work force to the highest standards of security and professionalism, .. and will continue to focus on these principles as critical elements in the ongoing effort to provide the traveling public with world-class security and world-class customer service.”
“Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen Newton. He would have won hands down in an IQ test, but if you ask who was the most attractive personality then Darwin is the one you'd wish to meet. Newton was solitary and reclusive, even vain and vindictive in his later years when he was president of the society.”
“Learn today so that you may live tomorrow”
“When we serve others, we serve ourselves. Do not think, I will help others - think rather, I will help my own, my world, because I cannot otherwise be happy.”
“Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.”

Source : "A one-word response to Engdahl" by Giles Foden, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2008.

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