Switchboard White Pages Quotes & Sayings

Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are swayed by other people, we get indoctrinated and we get influenced by advertising. — Ha-Joon Chang

How would he write without her? [The buried awareness of how completely her hands reached into his work; don't look, Lotto. It'd be like looking at the sun.] — Lauren Groff

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect required is whatever is available. Its accessibility to the performer is, in fact, something which appears to offend both its supporters and detractors ... And as regards method, the improvisor employs the oldest in music-making ... Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other than a free improvisation. — Derek Bailey

To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life. — Sherwood Anderson

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind. — Ramana Maharshi

Forty percent of all electronics sold are assembled by Foxconn. — Charles Duhigg

And all your Faithless doubts Will not destroy The rising spring In me. — Terry Tempest Williams

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility. — Lee De Forest

Nationalization, unmentionable only yesterday, has entered common usage not least because an even scarier word - depression - is next on America's list to avoid. — Frank Rich