"Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking."

-- Kathleen Hall Jamieson

#Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes #President Quotes

“Give to God just one thought of sincere love and longing and He responds: 'My child, one silent call from the depths of your soul, and I am there in an instant.'”
“Some international relations scholars would posit that interest in zombies is an indirect attempt to get a cognitive grip on what U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously referred to as the "unknown knowns" in international security. Perhaps, however, there also exists a genuine but publicly unacknowledged fear of the dead rising from the grave and feasting upon the entrails of the living.”
“It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.”
“My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; weve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.”
“Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.”

Source : Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.19, Transaction Publishers
“In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldnt call on me.”
“Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance”

Source : Robert Blair, Robert Anderson (1802). “The Poetical Works of Robert Blair: Containing The Grave, Etc., to which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author, by Robert Anderson, Accompanied by Prints, Designed and Engraved by W. Gardiner”, p.9
“With a good editor you find yourself shaping as you talk and they will ask a couple of questions that open new things. Some are good at line editing too, but there's this other, less visible talent.”

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