Grusin Dave Quotes & Sayings

That is why it is often such a relief when the talk turns from "general topics" to a man's own hobby. It is like turning from the landscape in the parlor to the ploughed field outdoors. It is a return to the three dimensional world, after a sojourn in the painter's portrayal of his own emotional response to his own inattentive memory of what he imagines he ought to have seen. — Walter Lippmann

Movies are an expensive business. — Albert Brooks

GEN4.26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD. — Anonymous

The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today — Samuel Johnson

Perhaps there was an unstoppable magic inherent in music and art. — Sarah J. Maas

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war. — Gerry Adams

Note that master-follower databases are not distributed: every machine has a full copy of the dataset. Master-follower replication is great for scaling up the processing power available for handling read requests, but does nothing to accommodate arbitrarily large datasets. Master-follower replication also provides some resilience against machine failure: in particular, failure of a machine will not result in data loss, since other machines have a full copy of the same dataset. — Mat Brown

Grace dispensers give out of their own bounty, in gratitude (a word with the same root as grace) for what we have received from God. We serve others not with some hidden scheme of making converts, rather to contribute to the common good, to help humans flourish as God intended. — Philip Yancey

Love has no limits. Compassion has no party. It is the responsibility of every human being and every institution to end poverty and to interrupt injustice. — Shane Claiborne

Freedom in cyberspace'd be fine and dandy if we happened to live there. — Steve Aylett

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout. — Charles De Secondat

Congress, it turns out, is filled with Republicans and Democrats eager to act as enablers for the most repressive forces in Iran. — Stephen Kinzer

Only through struggle, have I found rest. — Tim Lambesis

He loved doing things right. He even cared about the look of the parts you couldn't see. — Anonymous

The new ideal of virginity and widowhood opened up a new era of sympathetic collaboration between men and women, and for male-female friendship. By establishing a category of women who were understood to be off-limits with respect to romantic entanglements, writers like Gregory were able to support and even celebrate a feminine version of Christianity without being afraid to seem as if they had fallen under the influence of feminine charms. — Kate Cooper