S Tovka Quotes & Sayings

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment's silence, "Perhaps more so. — Victor Hugo

Lightsong had never bothered to learn the rules.
He found it more amusing to play when he had no idea what he was doing. — Brandon Sanderson

She abounds with lucious faults. — Quintilian

It was rumored that the length of the CD was determined by the duration of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, because that was Norio Ohga's favorite piece of music, and he was the president of Sony at the time. Philips had designed a CD with an 11.5 cm diameter, but Ohga insisted that a disc must be able to hold the entire Beethoven recording. The longest recording of the symphony in Polygram's archive was 74 minutes, so the CD size was increased to 12 cm diameter to accommodate the extra data. — David Byrne

I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room. — Mahatma Gandhi