Muzica Populara Quotes & Sayings

Eagleman cited studies in which people were asked to evaluate different groups of sentences, some false, some true, for several weeks. They snuck in a few repeated sentences and after seeing these sentences a few times, the readers evaluated the false sentences as being true, and even when the sentences were shown to be false, a large number of the participants insisted they were true. This is known as the illusion-of-truth effect. It — Jeffrey Dean Doty

Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome. — Pope Benedict XVI

What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights,
Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours
More tedious than the dial eightscore times!
O weary reckoning! — William Shakespeare

Night is longing, longing, longing, beyond all endurance. — Henry Miller

If you look at the Internet, the vast majority of start-ups are not successful. But the ones that are, are very very successful. So you can't point to the unsuccessful ones and say, 'There's no hope for this field.' It's just that they had the wrong idea or they had bad execution. — Evan Williams

Pain was the coin that paid the ferryman. — Jonathan Maberry

I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict. — Ori Gersht

He though continually about the apartment building, a Pandora's Box whose thousand lids were one by one, inwardly opening. The dominant tenants of the high-rise, those who had adapted most successfully to life there, were not the unruly airline pilots and film technicians of the lower floors, nor the bad-tempered and aggressive wives of the tax specialists on the upper levels. Although at first sight these people appeared to provoke all the tension and hostility, the people really responsible were the quiet and self-contained residents, like the dental surgeons Steele and his wife. — J.G. Ballard

David [Halberstam] kept on doing what he did because he loved it. One of the obituaries I read quoted him as saying that he did journalism for the same reason the great Julius Irving did basketball: He loved doing it even when he was having a bad day. — Jonathan Yardley

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence. — Yann Martel

I thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it's the most important thing in the world, and as if it's something that everyone should weigh on because it's important to me. — Billy Eichner

The jam had filled the courtyard and foyer and pushed the water out of the swimming pool. Where it touched the walls, little tendrils snaked their way upwards like searching fingers. There was an overpowering stench of strawberries. — Yahtzee Croshaw

Knowing that, too, was one — J.D. Robb

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004. — Laura Ziskin

And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it. — Al Franken