Fast Forward Reading Quotes & Sayings

There is no quicker way for a scientist to bring discredit upon himself and on his profession than roundly to declare - particularly when no declaration of any kind is called for - that science knows or soon will know the answers to all questions worth asking, and that the questions that do not admit a scientific answer are in some way non-questions or pseudo-questions that only simpletons ask and only the gullible profess to be able to answer. — Peter Medawar

I like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them. — Anna Paquin

Educate yourself make your world view bigger, visualize wealth, and put yourself in the picture — KRS-One

Every advance in our acuteness of perception will show us something thing new; but the old and first-discerned thing will still be there, not falsified, only modified and enriched by the new perceptions, becoming continually more beautiful in its harmony with them, and more approved as a part of the infinite truth. — John Ruskin

While investors and managers must place their feet in the future, their memories and nervous systems often remain plugged into the past. — Warren Buffett

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery. — Ana Gasteyer

I could flay you and wear your skin as a cloak, and caper in the streets in the moonlight. But some might consider that crass treatment of a guest."
I nod.
"Well, some people got no sense of humor, do they?"
"I am one of those people. — Charlie Huston

You'll notice that I said guidelines and not rules. Guidelines allow for some flexibility, some discretion. Rules are more likely to be enforced in a hard and fast manner, which can leave little room for interpretation and will probably lead to you having to deal with more nutcases who insist on reading them fifty times backward and forward in hopes of finding an angle where they think you are being inconsistent. Your user guidelines are a key communication tool for you. They are a type of vision statement for your community. By putting your expectations of users in writing, you are letting everyone know what your vision is for your community. By communicating this, people will know what they are in for and will either get behind you (and participate) or get away from you. Either way, they will at least know what your community is all about, and having this level of communication is vital to your success. — Patrick O'Keefe

To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything. — Timothy Keller

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form. — Anton Ehrenzweig

He felt like a baked bean in a can, soaring through the air on a downward turn of a parabolic arc... — A. Ashley Straker

You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces. — Suzanne Collins