#diction

Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest. ↗

— Anne Rice

#paraphrased #devil

In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#fantasy #malediction #biology

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions. ↗

— Andre Breton

#cease #certain #certain point #communicable #contradictions

It is critical to learn how to listen for what is not being said. ↗

— Debra Kaye

#future-prediction #ideas #innovation #business

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual. ↗

— Earl Warren

#computers #e-mail #individuality #internet #prediction

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference. ↗

— Nate Silver

#knowledge #prediction #self-knowledge #uncertainty #wisdom

I took my time, running my fingers along the spines of books, stopping to pull a title from the shelf and inspect it. A sense of well-being flowed through me as I circled the ground floor. It was better then meditation or a new pair of shoes- or even chocolate. My life was a disaster, but there were still books. Lots and lots of books. A refuge. A solace. Each one offering the possibility of a new beginning. ↗

— Beth Pattillo

#bibliophile #book-lovers #browsing #life

A smartphone is an e-toy designed for the lonely inner child hidden in each and everyone of us. ↗

— Saurabh Sharma

#humor #smartphone-addiction #design

Wherever your path takes you, may all your deathbed wishes come true, and may you celebrate each and every one of them many long years before your final breath. ↗

— Gay Hendricks

#self-help #dreams

Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confidence #confirmation #confirmed #creativity #error