Goutweed Flower Quotes & Sayings

Life is hell, and the sweet still night of absolute death is the annihilation of hell. — Thomas Ligotti

A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it. — Dmitri Shostakovich

I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming - or buying software - on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess. — Ted Nelson

Scratching my way through minutes that feel like years, and years that have run by me like sand, like waste. But — Lauren Oliver

I had learned to dance in the rain;
and everything else was just a breeze. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann