Wilmott 19th Quotes

#1. The Web has a very different effect. It places more pressure on our working memory, not only diverting resources from our higher reasoning faculties but obstructing the consolidation of long-term memories and the development of schemas.

Nicholas Carr

#2. I remember being amazed that death could so easily rise up from the nothing of a boyish afternoon, billow up like fog.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#3. If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.

Maeve Binchy

#4. It's a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster.

Scott Jurek

#5. Were we to be engaged in a war . . we should become absolutely destitute of elephants. . .What would our children do without elephants to amuse them? What would the sick do without the sight of elephants to invigorate them?

Paul Chambers

#6. What becomes of someone who thinks he has all the power ... and what becomes of someone who believes he has none?

Joe Sacco

#7. The joy of writing.
The power of preserving.
Revenge of a mortal hand.

Wislawa Szymborska

#8. My doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror.

Rodney Dangerfield

#9. I grow vegetables - I'm a vegetarian; I've got strawberries, artichokes, leeks, broad beans.

Anita Pallenberg

#10. My evolution into becoming a photojournalist started with falling in love with literature when I was a teenager, falling in love with novels and imagining a life of being a storyteller.

Ed Kashi

#11. Look at them running to and fro about the streets, every one of them a scoundrel and a criminal at heart and, worse still, an idiot. But try to get me off and they'd be wild with righteous indignation. Oh, how I hate them all!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that every computer would work this way someday. It was so obvious once you saw it. It didn't require tremendous intellect. It was so clear.

Steve Jobs

#13. Mother, I want to see him fly!

George R R Martin

#14. Never create the man of your dreams, because he will-be just that: a dream. When you wake up, he could be a nightmare.

Tamara R. Neal

#15. It wasn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, but the grain of sand in your shoe

Karen White