Confirmation Rites Quotes

#1. We must have government that spends less and does less.

Tom Coburn

#2. Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

Richard Russo

#3. The science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing. The poet to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science, and the accumulated learning of mankind, enjoys no advantage over Homer.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Not a chance in China

Mary Ann Barrucco

#5. More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data.

Peter Norvig

#6. Before you say cut, wait 5 seconds

Wim Wenders

#7. Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words.

Vladimir Nabokov

#8. To Sara's practised eye, this latest episode looked something like a broken heart, even if she'd never seen the look on him before. Or even imagined it happening. She wondered if he'd noticed yet.

Manna Francis

#9. But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare ... are to be found portrayed in it.

James A. Garfield

#10. The main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence.

Muqtada Al Sadr