Ucho Quotes

#1. Ucho w liczbach: A youthful ear can hear ten octaves of sound, spanning a range from about thirty to twelve tousand vibrations a second. The avarege ear can distinguish sounds a seventeenth of a tone apart. From top to bottom we hear about fourtheen tousend discriminable tones.

Oliver Sacks

#2. I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

Kris Kristofferson

#3. One quart milk, one quart cream, one dozen eggs, 12 tablespoons sugar, one pint brandy, half-pint rye whiskey, quarter-pint rum, quarter-pint sherry. Mix. Store by cool window or in cellar.

Kristiana Gregory

#4. Here you are ... A beautiful girl with nothing to be ashamed of ... And yet you are afraid to look at me. Someone has been cruel to you ... Or perhaps life has been cruel.
"I don't know sir" I said, Though of course I knew perfectly well.

Arthur Golden

#5. Things that only a writer would understand - you're writing a character - you tell that character who she or he is and they stop you and make it clear, they are the ones telling their story. You just have to let them tell it.

Lisa Marbly-Warir

#6. In the hallowed hall where one of my ancestors, Crazy King Clifford II, once wore his crown - and nothing else. Because he was hot. We're not supposed to talk about him. Finally,

Emma Chase

#7. I got a kick out of having a big bankroll in my pocket. Even if I only made a couple hundred dollars, I'd always keep it in fives and tens so it'd look big.

Mickey Cohen

#8. Everyone has the capacity to do terrible things. Put someone in the right situation, then offer the right incentive or trigger the right emotion, and that person will choose wrong over right, even if it goes against their nature.

Stephanie Bond

#9. All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.

Maajid Nawaz

#10. IT metrics have to evolve from being a cost center to becoming a revenue generator.

Pearl Zhu

#11. [I'm planning]for starters, build a permanent border wall between the US and Mexico that Mexico "must pay for". The plan proposes various sticks to force Mexico to cooperate, such as impounding all remittance payments to Mexico from illegal wages earned in the US.

Donald Trump

#12. Caution is an important quality in a leader, but it has to be caution followed by decision. Caution followed by ambivalence can be a weakness.

Leon Panetta

#13. There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Paul Auster

#14. Doing nothing can sometimes be the most effective form of action.

Kevin Kwan

#15. Funny, how some of the most important people of your life can be dismissed as inconsequential, just because you believe the bullshit they've spent their entire lives selling.

Amy Lane

#16. The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he's not telling you," he said. "The most important thing he has to say is what he's trying not to say.

Robert A. Caro