quotes about Difficult Journeys

“The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.”

“We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.”

“To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.”

“Treatment of the apparently whimsical fluctuations of the stock quotations as truly non stationary processes requires a model of such complexity that its practical value is likely to be limited. An additional complication, not encompassed by most stock market models, arises from the manifestation of the market as a nonzero sum game.”

Source : "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, Revised Edition". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, Chapter Nine, Weighted Statistical Logic And Statistical Games, 1977.

“When Mia Hamm touches the ball, you just hold your breath.”

“Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.”

“An antisemite used to be someone who hates Jews; nowadays an antisemite is someone Jews hate.”

Source : "Moral obligation and Jewish identity". Article by Gilad Atzmon, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2011.

“The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons on a machine more or less.”

“By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude Observatory in Boulder] and Aram A. Boornazian [mathematician with S. Ross and Co. in Boston] have found evidence that the sun has been contracting about 0.1% per century during that time, corresponding to a shrinkage rate of about 5 feet per hour. And digging deep into historical records, Eddy has found 400-year-old eclipse observations that are consistent with such a shrinkage.”

“Would you pull the lever for yourself, Ben Affleck? What has Barack Obama meant to your movie career, Ben?”