Infovis Quotes & Sayings

I will quote one sentence from this text, namely, the one with which it ended. It was also the sentence which finally dissolved the writer's block that had inhibited the author from starting work. I have since used it whenever I myself have been gripped by fear of the blank sheet in front of me. It is infallible, and its effect is always the same: the knot unravels and a stream of words gushes out on to the virgin paper. It acts like a magic spell and I sometimes fancy it really is one. But, even if it isn't the work of a sorcerer, it is certainly the most brilliant sentence any writer has ever devised. It runs: 'This is where my story begins.' — Walter Moers

The purpose of road traffic is speed, not safety. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

My greatest talent is calmness and being positive. I concentrate on what you can do even in the worst of times. You don't judge by last week's errors or lost opportunity. — Joe Torre

The fear that permeated every fiber of my being was relentless, it was cruel, and it was my best hope for getting through this. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore because it's too crowded. — Yogi Berra

No one had ever talked about me that way, like I was so close to perfect the imperfections were washed away. I — Nicole Williams

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot. — Steven Spielberg

We grow up being told about great figures in our society, and as you get older you have to question the stories you've been told and decide if these great figures are indeed as great as you've been told. — Jonathan Stroud

christmas is a time when you get homesick-even when you're home. — Carol Nelson

No, I'm not one of those guys. I'd never get anything done if I rescued everyone who needed it. But I do like to help people I care about. That's why I'm here with you right now. — Lisa Brown Roberts

Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture. — Ben Shahn

My muse is an ungrateful harlot who's abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots. — Richelle Mead

If a tear fell from my eyes,
Each time I wished you were with me,
I would have an ocean shore outside my door. — Stacey Chillemi

Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind. — Douglas Adams

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic. — Ludwig Wittgenstein