Childhood Longings Quotes & Sayings

All children want to go to space. Earth only offers parents wailing about overdraft notices and evening news playing in an empty den. Dead pets too. Childhood is a rot. And so they look up and see stars shiver, ancient information only just now arriving, because that is the only place left to look, and they yearn. — David Connerley Nahm

Companies trying to misrepresent the product they sell by playing with our cognitive biases, our unconscious associations, and that's sneaky. The latter is done by, say, showing a poetic picture of a sunset with a cowboy smoking and forcing an association between great romantic moments and some given product that, logically, has no possible connection to it. You seek a romantic moment and what you get is cancer. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Any attempt to reduce the Bible to a guidebook for how to live is not only wrong, it's also idolatrous. It replaces Christ at the center with something else, with moralism. The point of the Word, the goal of Christianity, is not to teach you how to be a good person, or a good man. The goal is repentance and forgiveness, given freely to sinners, because of the substitutionary death of the God-man, Jesus. — Jeffrey Hemmer

Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer. — Sylvester Stallone

I don't think much of most of the films I made, but being a movie star was something I liked very much. — Joan Bennett

Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book. — Martin Filler

IT needs to transform from a big fat silo to the digital fit brain of a modern organization. — Pearl Zhu

For some reason I've always had an irrational love for New York. There's no reason that you would necessarily like it on paper. It's very expensive. — Woody Allen

stayed friends because they could keep each other's secrets. Now, — Katherine Boo