Casas Test Quotes

#1. What makes up a life; events or the recollection of events?
How much of recollection is invention?
Whose invention?

Jeanette Winterson

#2. As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.

Edmund White

#3. People break down into two groups when the experience something lucky. Group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.

M. Night Shyamalan

#4. With Internet technology you can capture a photo, a quote, or an article, store it locally and upload it into the Net more than once, if you wish, to multiple sites. Can you imagine then forcing the search engines to somehow not index that information?

Vint Cerf

#5. I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.

Bill Parcells

#7. All things change. Until we wake, the dream drifts on the wind.

Robert Jordan

#8. I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

Lucille Ball

#9. If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it had racial overtones.

Peggy McIntosh

#10. I can't believe that in the world of wrong we've created together, this can still feel so right.

Leisa Rayven

#11. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Steve Jobs

#12. Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.

Pliny The Elder