Retoucher Une Quotes & Sayings

The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam. — James Altucher

Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways — Stephen Nachmanovitch

I think we're raising whole generations who regard facts as more or less optional.
We have kids in elementary school who are being urged to take stands on political issues, to write letters to congressmen and presidents about nuclear energy.
They're not a decade old, and they're being thrown these kinds of questions that can absorb the lifetime of a very brilliant and learned man. And they're being taught that it's important to have views, and they're not being taught that it's important to know what you're talking about.
It's important to hear the opposite viewpoint, and more important to learn how to distinguish why viewpoint A and viewpoint B are different, and which one has the most evidence or logic behind it. They disregard that. They hear something, they hear some rhetoric, and they run with it. — Thomas Sowell

Except wind stands as it never stood
It is an ill wind turns none to good. — Thomas Tusser

Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't. — Antony Garrett Lisi

I didn't see myself as the busty type. Too bad bodies are issued randomly, not selected to match your personality — Phoebe Kitanidis

The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting. — Friedrich Nietzsche

When I was a young man, my friends and I and all of us in New York were very influenced by French cinema. French cinema played an enormous influence on those of us who wanted to be filmmakers. — Woody Allen

In real life, you don't get to choose what you forget. — Jonathan Tropper

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue. — Voltaire

Nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for
Weak but detectable interaction between two neighboring universes that are otherwise not causally connected.
Manifests itself in humans as a feeling of missing a place one has never been, a place very much like one's home universe, or as a longing for versions of one's self that one will never, and can never know. — Charles Yu

A lot of people think that success is luck and being in the right place at the right time. But I think if you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create an awful lot of your own luck. — Nolan Bushnell

It is good to have respect for all beings because who knows what anyone can do? — Frederick Lenz

We liked the Beach Boys. There was kind of that friendly East Coast, West Coast thing between us. We were always fans. 'God Only Knows' is a brilliant record. — Bob Gaudio