Normoyle Park Quotes & Sayings

Music took her somewhere, and I used to wonder where. I thought it was dumb, the way she lived for a collection of sounds, for someone else's words and notes. — Megan Lindholm

His life had already touched upon the age when everything that breathes of impulse shrinks in a man, when a powerful bow has a fainter effect on his soul and no longer twines piercing music around his heart, when the touch of beauty no longer transforms virginal powers into fire and flame, but all the burnt-out feelings become more accessible to the sound of gold, listen more attentively to its alluring music, and little by little allow it imperceptibly to lull them completely. Fame cannot give pleasure to one who did not merit it but stole it; it produces a constant tremor only in one who is worthy of it. And therefore all his feelings and longings turn toward gold. — Nikolai Gogol

Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else. — Alex Tabarrok

The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception. — Pliny The Elder

We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Freedom of thought is the only good that is perhaps more precious than peace, for the simple reason that, without it, peace would merely be another name of servitude. — Andre Comte-Sponville

When people depend on my Task
they trust my soul and heart,
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
August 19, 2016
Amen
God — Petra Hermans

Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.' — Karl Pilkington

Among both the learned and the not so learned it is accepted that poetry can be the language of the emotions; what does not gain such ready acceptance is that poetry is a living language whose syllables fall naturally into verse. And yet both these effects may be illustrated simultaneously by the easy experiment of dropping a weight on your toe. Any really prolonged and heartfelt profanity may lack originality but its imagery is elaborately fantastic; and it invariably scans. — R.D. Fitzgerald

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. — William Butler Yeats

There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now, — Bill Gurley

It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a calculus equation. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Enthusiasm is contagious, and the person who has it, under control, is generally welcome in any group of people. — Napoleon Hill

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview. — Ben Harper

Red Sox versus Yankees is the greatest rivalry in sports. — Carl Yastrzemski