#uses

I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old. ↗

— Laura San Giacomo

#becoming #cerebral #computer #disabled #does

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#act #because #big #big cars #cars

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one. ↗

— Andre Gide

#each #joy #line #loyalty #makes

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more? ↗

— Ryan Giggs

#does #earn #enough #football #get

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort. ↗

— William Gilbert

#common #conjectures #demonstrated #discovery #experiments

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#children #early #geniuses #grew #indications

Every spoken word arouses our self-will. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#every #our #self-will #spoken #spoken word

You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#evening #expectation #go #houses #know

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#clerk #faculty #favourite #frustration #get

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. ↗

— Amy Tan

#comes #desperation #inspiration #kindness #knows