Griesbeck Obituary Quotes & Sayings

During the intensive rocket bombing of London in World War II, it was generally believed that the bombing could not be random because a map of the hits revealed conspicuous gaps. Some suspected that German spies were located in the unharmed areas. A careful statistical analysis revealed that the distribution of hits was typical of a random process - and typical as well in evoking a strong impression that it was not random. "To the untrained eye," Feller remarks, "randomness appears as regularity or tendency to cluster. — Daniel Kahneman

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders. — Baltasar Gracian

It would have been unthinkable for anyone on the block not to know the names of the players, their batting averages, and the win-loss record of the pitchers. We knew who they were playing on a given day, where they were playing, who was pitching, and how many games out of first place they might be. We also knew as much information about their personal lives as the baseball cards we flipped and traded provided. Most of our contact with the Dodgers came through the radio and TV play-by-play commentary of Red Barber and Vin Scully, who were as familiar to us as the players. Ebbets — Bernie Sanders

Because we both knew that sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them. — Brock Clarke

Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire. — Napoleon Hill

The non-commutativity of the underlying process produces an ontological complementarity. This must be contrasted to Bohr's epistemological complementarity. — Basil Hiley

She looked like a dead Teletubby. — Babe Walker

I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write. — Lynne Tillman

Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring
this is one of the harshest human miseries. — Wislawa Szymborska

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins. — Gerry Mulligan

A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in texture and mood, in tone and meaning, warped by a thousand factors of season, of heat or cold, of still or multi winds, torqued by odors, tastes, and the fabrics of ice or grass, of bud or leaf or black-drawn naked limbs. And as a day changes so do its subjects, bugs and birds, cates, dogs, butterflies and people. — John Steinbeck

It is very easy to criticize others but far more difficult to put one's own principles into practice, and it is when one forgets this truth, lauds oneself to the skies, treats everyone else as worthless, and generally despises others, that one's own character is clearly revealed. — Murasaki Shikibu

You're not mending anything, remember, Sand? The hedge." He paused and shook his head at himself. "And Perrotte's away for a few minutes, and you're talking to yourself again. — Merrie Haskell

He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Other — E. M. Bounds

Jenna ",he groaned. And when he licked his lips, he tasted the salt of his own tears. — Ellen Connor