Elisha Gray Quotes
When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone ... The scientist looking at the same stone perhaps will stop, and with a hammer break it open, when the newly exposed faces of the rock will have written upon them a history that is as real to him as the printed page.
Quotes to Explore
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Isolationism is over.
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.
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The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is their opinion that Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in great abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless.
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At least she recognizes a good love scene when she sees one.
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To be in a band, at least according to the rules of rock in the 1970s, one must know how to play an instrument. But rather than waste time solving that problem, No Wavers ignored it. The point was simply to make music, not to learn how first.
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Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.
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When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone ... The scientist looking at the same stone perhaps will stop, and with a hammer break it open, when the newly exposed faces of the rock will have written upon them a history that is as real to him as the printed page.
