A Practical Commentary Quotes

#1. I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

David Lynch

#2. A lot of people don't know this, but Toronto is probably the most multicultural city in North America.

Stephen Amell

#3. My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.

Edward Abbey

#4. I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

Richard Harris Barham

#5. Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

Barry Commoner

#6. Our modern history begins in 1788 with the dumping of the human detritus of Britain ... Yet repositioned in the sunlight , they flourished. ...This was colonial Australia's great gift to the world: practical proof that, when it comes to human society, the soil is more important than the seed.

Richard Glover

#7. The day was beautiful, that first day in September, the kind of perfect day that made life something to savor, when hot dogs really were delicious, ice cream was served, and egos were forgotten.

Kate Alcott

#8. We should all rehearse and practise the positives in our life, rather than doing what so many people do.

Richard Bandler

#9. The tea partiers are a great addition. The tea partiers have invigorated a base that has been dormant for a long period of time. We're going to have a broad array of different views in our Republican conference, and I think it might be more interesting than any I've been in in a long time.

John McCain

#10. With software there are only two possibilites: either the users control the programme or the programme controls the users. If the programme controls the users, and the developer controls the programme, then the programme is an instrument of unjust power.

Richard Stallman

#11. No one knows Anne's better side, and that's why most people can't stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone's had enough of me to last a month.

Anne Frank

#12. Nobody will ever tell you who praised you but everybody would like to be the first to tell you who criticized you.

Amit Abraham

#13. Don't keep your greatness; exhibit it to the admiration of all but note however also to keep your precious something hidden for discovery. When it is discovered, it shall win awe and admiration, and it shall be an inspiration!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#14. Stories like that were will-o'-the-wisps, glowing in the deepest, darkest parts of forests, leading travelers farther and farther from safety, out toward an ever-moving mark.

Holly Black

#15. Balance was so elusive: either it was like this, too fast, or there was the heavy thing like wading through a swamp to get to the end of a sentence.

Edward St. Aubyn

#16. To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.

Ellen Glasgow