Lossy Compression Quotes & Sayings

I have had the most wonderful childhood, and I was raised in a very loving family. And it was nothing short of an amazing privilege because I was incredibly lucky to be able to play up in trees and make it like silly dens in a bush and stuff like that. — Rose Leslie

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading. — Juan Goytisolo

Fear is the assassin of dreams — Philip McKernan

I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people. — Philip Johnson

When the brain is released from the constraints of reality, it can generate any sound, image, or smell in its repertoire, sometimes in complex and "impossible" combinations". — Oliver Sacks

Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression. — Brian Christian

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents. — Al Franken

All I know is that it was very bad when I was twenty-eight. Everything that was said to me I seemed to have heard before, and I could no longer listen. I could no longer sit in little bars near Grand Central and listen to someone complaining of his wife's inability to cope with the help while he missed another train to Connecticut. I no longer had any interest in hearing about the advances other people had received from their publishers, about plays which were having second-act trouble in Philadelphia, or about people I would like very much if only I would come out and meet them. I had already met them, always. — Joan Didion

Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care. — Norman Cousins

She watches as the blood springs from the cut she's making, but it doesn't change anything. Not this time. She swipes again, deeper. Now she feels pain, but will it be enough? — Julia Hoban

But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that the present outer reef is the final southern boundary of the North American continent. — Louis Agassiz

In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little ... But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I do love a man with a big vocabulary. — Tiffany Reisz

When the sunshine of God's love meets the shadows of our sorrows, the rainbow of promise appears. — Ryan Jo Summers

To be free means always leaving ... or returning to a place where leaves never fall. — Rich Shapero