Distorts As Data Quotes

#1. I seemed to still be alive. Which was unexpected. I'd feel good about it when I stopped retching my insides up.

Alwyn Hamilton

#2. Cosmetic decoration, which frequently distorts the data, will never salvage an underlying lack of content.

Edward R. Tufte

#3. When God wants to move a mountain, he does not take a bar of iron, but he takes a little worm. The fact is, we have too much strength. We are not weak enough. It is not our strength that we want. One drop of God's strength is worth more than all the world.

Dwight L. Moody

#4. Whose tale more sad than thine, whose lot more dire? O Oedipus, discrowned head, Thy cradle was thy marriage bed.

Sophocles

#5. There's always a tomorrow and the hope of something new.

Helen Steiner Rice

#6. And maybe there will be,
after all,
some slack and perfectly balanced
blind and rough peace, finally,
in the deep and green and utterly motionless pools after all that
falling?

Mary Oliver

#7. Lots of people come up to me and call me Sir Bruce now. Interviewers call me Sir with every question, but I never make a point of making people call me Sir. It doesn't matter to me, though; it was a great honour to be knighted. I'm very proud of it.

Bruce Forsyth

#8. The truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#9. Ed Wood served a great purpose - mainly making writers feel better about their work.

R. K. Milholland

#10. My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.

Lord Byron

#11. Love if it existed
was something separate: another life.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#12. If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick.

Mark Twain

#13. Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

Carl Schurz

#14. If you just do what you're doing, you're going to do what you do. Time to interrupt patterns.

Tammy Kling

#15. In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

Diane Abbott

#16. The bright bite in Mary Lee Kortes' voice [has] the high-mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton, with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde.

David Fricke