Zitat des Tages über Bestreut / Strewn:
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
My personal history is strewn with massive errors in judgment. They're all precious to me.
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
To a person of analytical ability, perceptive enough to realise that mathematical equipment was a powerful sword in economics, the world of economics was his or her oyster in 1935. The terrain was strewn with beautiful theorems begging to be picked up and arranged in unified order.
The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
Work... family - I'm doing it all. But here's the secret I share with so many other nanny- and housekeeper-less mothers I see working the same balance: my house is trashed. It is strewn with socks and tutus.
Brazil is strewn with ruins of projects - refineries, power plants - begun but never finished. Most of this investment never landed in places or industries that really meshed with the trajectory of the global economy. This wasn't state-of-the art industrial policy. The projects seemed curiously nostalgic.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in a house strewn with rubbish.