Semka Piotr Quotes & Sayings

The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present. — Anthony Minghella

Romance is very particular to each individual and a very personalised thing. — Shailene Woodley

1962 that "No data processing system, whether artificial or living, can process more than 2 x 1047 bits per second per gram of its mass," which means that a hypothetical supercomputer the size of the earth (= c. 6 x 1027 grams) grinding away for as long as the earth has existed (= about 1010 years, with c. 3.14 x 107 seconds/year) can have processed at most 2.56 x 2092 bits, which number is known as Bremermann's Limit. — David Foster Wallace

I've been broke, and I've been in debt, and broke is better. — Gary Reilly

In the end, I sold my soul." he had said, and Abby had replied "That wasn't the end. — Jo Walton

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing. — Carly Simon

They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence. — Aristotle.

The organ has a mind of its own, disregarding what might be unhealthy for you. Once it's been jolted by that spark, awakened by that all-consuming flame, it plays the dirtiest game of all. With each curious beat of wanting to touch, taste, and feel love, the heart routes all logical thoughts from your brain, siphoning them out of that sucker like a thief, spitting them back out onto a highway piled high with nothing but bloody wreckage. — Gail McHugh

He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor. — Venerable Bede

An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has evolved over the past century and a half. — Edith Hall

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law. — Richard Lamm

After an Indian meal they went back to Jamie's flat and Tony did at least two things to him on the sofa that no one had ever done to him before then came back and them again the following evening, and suddenly life became very good indeed. — Mark Haddon

One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood. — Elisabeth Elliot

I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology. — Henry David Thoreau

There are stages in bread-making quite similar to the stages of writing. You begin with something shapeless, which sticks to your fingers, a kind of paste. Gradually that paste becomes more and more firm. Then there comes a point when it turns rubbery. Finally, you sense that the yeast has begun to do its work: the dough is alive. Then all you have to do is let it rest. But in the case of a book the work may take ten years. — Marguerite Yourcenar