Forcina Obituary Quotes & Sayings

(T)he real world worked differently than stories. In a novel you always knew the moment when something Happened, when someone Changed. But real life was full of gradual, piecemeal, continuous transformation. It was full of accidents and undefinables, and things that just happened on their own. — Scott Westerfeld

A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time. Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents. — Alan Lightman

According to them, everyone wants to be English. Being English is the best thing in the world. (Far behind, the second best thing is being God himself.) — Angela Kiss

1962 that "No data processing system, whether artificial or living, can process more than 2 x 1047 bits per second per gram of its mass," which means that a hypothetical supercomputer the size of the earth (= c. 6 x 1027 grams) grinding away for as long as the earth has existed (= about 1010 years, with c. 3.14 x 107 seconds/year) can have processed at most 2.56 x 2092 bits, which number is known as Bremermann's Limit. — David Foster Wallace

When God's in it ... it flows. When the flesh is in it ... it's forced. — Charles R. Swindoll

He should have told Vlad that in the old days a collection of poems could change your life, but a single poem could also cost the life of its author. — Andrei Makine

Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists. — Christina Romer

One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is. — Claudine Guerin De Tencin

Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game. — Adam Dunn

love isnt mortal or immortal. it just is — Cassandra Clare

wish I could just run barefoot in every refugee camp
and hold every child,
cover their ears
so they wouldn't have to hear the sound of bombing
for the rest of their life the way I do.. — Rafeef Ziadah

Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence. — Goran Ivanisevic

You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer. — Jim Butcher