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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 20af9a8 | Former Lucky Stores CEO Don Ritchey said that difficult bosses really "test your beliefs, and you learn all the things you don't want to do or stand for. I" | Warren G. Bennis | ||
| c0b4557 | As one Great Group after another has shown, talented people don't need fancy facilities. It sometimes seems that any old garage will do. But they do need the right tools. The leaders of PARC threatened to quit if the lab was not allowed to build the computer it needed, rather than accept an inferior technology. Cutting-edge technology is often a key element in creative collaboration. The right tools become part of the creative process. | Warren G. Bennis | ||
| 3bc2b92 | Logograms pose a more difficult question. An increasing number of persons and institutions, from archy and mehitabel to PostScript and TrueType, come to the typographer in search of special treatment.In earlier days it was kings and deities whose agents demanded that their names be written in a larger size or set in a specially ornate typeface; not it is business firms and mass-market products demanding an extra helping of capitals, or a pr.. | corporate-bullshit typography | Robert Bringhurst | |
| f73107b | Type designers are, at their best, the Stradivarii of literature: not merely makers of salable products, but artists who design and make the instruments that other artists use. | stradivarius typography | Robert Bringhurst | |
| f6feb54 | Actually, typefaces and racing bikes are very much alike. Both are ideas as well as machines, and neither should be burdened with excess drag or baggage. Pictures of pumping feet will not make the type go faster, any more than smoke trails, pictures of rocket ships or imitation lightning bolts tied to the frame will improve the speed of the bike. | substance-over-style | Robert Bringhurst | |
| dea5f39 | I was excited because getting to know oneself was exciting. I was beginning to believe that I had the power to influence my own personality. | self-confidence self-confident self-empowerment | Victoria Holt | |
| 03daef2 | Boys throw stones at frogs in fun, but the frogs do not die in fun, but in earnest. | Bion of Borysthenes | ||
| 400dd7b | Logograms pose a more difficult question. An increasing number of persons and institutions, from archy and mehitabel to PostScript and TrueType, come to the the typographer in search of special treatment. In earlier days it was kings and deities whose agents demanded that their names be written in a larger size or set in a specially ornate typeface; now it is business firms and mass-market products demanding an extra helping of capitals, or.. | spit-take what-did-i-just-read | Robert Bringhurst | |
| 59df2a3 | An ancient metaphor: thought is a thread, and the raconteur is a spinner of yarns - but the true storyteller, the poet, is a weaver. | storytelling thought | Robert Bringhurst | |
| 9c06b80 | if the poet becomes what-is, then what-is (and no one else) becomes the author of the poem. | Robert Bringhurst | ||
| 4b7cd9a | She is 25. Whereas Pauline at forty undresses in the darkness and drapes herself languorously with a sheet or towel, Blanche stretches naked on her back under the electric light, her left knee raised, her right foot resting on it, examining her wriggling toes. She flings out her arm and flicks ash in the vague direction of the ashtray. | sexy | Robert W. Harris | |
| d82ccc9 | N]ow, even more than in the past, creativity is a key to economic success. We no longer need people to follow directions in robot-like ways (we have robots for that), or to perform routine calculations (we have computers for that), or to answer already-answered questions (we have search engines for that). But we do need people who can ask and seek answers to new questions, solve new problems and anticipate obstacles before they arise. These.. | Robin Landa | ||
| 69943cc | It has always astonished me how changes come into one's life. The gradual change becomes acceptable, but sudden shock, presenting itself without warning to shatter the existence so completely that nothing will ever be the same again, makes me uneasily aware of the perpetual uncertainties of life. | sudden-change uncertainties uncertainties-in-life | Victoria Holt | |
| 3ec547c | I did not wish her to go on in this strain because her poverty was something which obsessed her and like all obsessions was boring to other people. | Victoria Holt | ||
| b9e3680 | least | Victoria Holt | ||
| caf74e8 | Dust was dangerous, I insisted. Insects bred in it. | Victoria Holt | ||
| 8188947 | I despise you," I said. "That is of no consequence. You are caught. There is no escape for you. You are wise enough to know that." "Please keep away from me." "Why, when I am pleased to be near you." "You are wicked." | Victoria Holt | ||
| b4da112 | I was sure I could bring him back to health. He died...a | Victoria Holt | ||
| d9b0843 | I asked her to teach me, too, but she said it was something you taught yourself by keeping your eyes and ears open, and learning about people -- for human nature was the same all the world over; there was so much bad in the good and so much good in the bad, that it was all a matter of weighing up how much good or bad had been allotted to each one. | Victoria Holt | ||
| e42b7a4 | Do you know, when I stepped through that gate I felt as though I had walked into a new world...something quite different from anything I had known before. I felt that something tremendously dramatic was happening and because it was all so quiet and in a way ordinary that made it rather sinister. | life-changing new-world quiet-difference sinister | Victoria Holt | |
| 06814ef | He could see I meant what I said, and was temporarily defeated. He walked past me and into the corridor; his eyes were angry and malevolent. I was horrified because I realized that he really believed I would have become his mistress that night. | love mistress | Victoria Holt | |
| a113a46 | In spite of my efforts I could not free myself. He caught me to me and I felt his teeth against mine. I kept mine firmly clenched and I hated him. I hated him so fiercely that I found a certain pleasure in my hatred. In that moment he had aroused an emotion in me that I had never felt before. It was not without desire. Perhaps, I thought later when I was alone and trying to analyze my feelings, the desire I felt was for a house, for a diffe.. | hate marriage | Victoria Holt | |
| 71471a6 | Did it really happen as the legend said? Did they in truth dance here? Were they struck down in their defiance and turned to stone, to stand on this spot as the centuries passed? How fortunate they were! Sudden death was preferable to a lingering one. I thought of the seventh - the one who had been dragged to the hollow wall, the one who was shut in to die; and I was filled with a momentary melancholy. | legend virgin | Victoria Holt | |
| b6d33f7 | Sometimes I sit at my window looking out on the towers of the Abbas and weep silently. No one must know how I suffered. No one must know how I failed. Sometimes I go and stand in the ring of stones and it seems to me that my fate is more wretched then theirs. They were turned to stone while they were dancing defiance. I wish I could have been. | grief sorrow | Victoria Holt | |
| 06b78e8 | Why should this happen to me when I planned and worked... and came so far? | disbelief failure | Victoria Holt | |
| 83ac848 | I was with my father at the end. He held my hand and I could see that he was at peace. Colin | Victoria Holt | ||
| 135cd96 | I had come to the end of a path and I did not know which way to go. And there was the easy road to take and everyone was pushing me toward it. "What" | Victoria Holt | ||
| 7739e9b | VICTORIA, in a letter to her granddaughter Princess Victoria of Hesse, 22 August 1883 | Jim Holt | ||
| 28b0583 | We make our own luck. If you believe in ill luck, it will surely come. | Victoria Holt | ||
| e3ef657 | Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils. | Bion of Borysthenes | ||
| 7f52bac | They passed a bank thermometer that read twenty degrees, but from the cold air blowing into the car, Halloran thought that was pretty optimistic. He'd heard once that all the thermometers in Minnesota were calibrated ten degrees high, just to keep the population from moving en masse. | P.J. Tracy | ||
| 8f0a2c6 | If Melania had come out and said, "According to my husband, I should be very pretty to get what I want in life," that would have been news. Well, not news exactly, but candid enough to be newsworthy." | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 3e0fa98 | It is astonishing that Donald Trump managed to eke out a victory over Donald Trump at the polls. It is amazing how narrow the margin was by which Hillary Clinton defeated Hillary Clinton. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 4215cba | A road trip with Richard Nixon would seem like gum surgery on wheels. But Hunter S. Thompson actually went on a road trip with Nixon--or, anyway, on a car ride--in New Hampshire during the 1968 presidential campaign. Hunter described it in Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72: There were only two of us in the back: just me and Richard Nixon, and we were talking football in a serious way. . . . It was a very weird trip; probably one o.. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 5f0f7f9 | Fretting makes us important. Say you're an adult male and you're skipping down the street whistling "Last Train to Clarksville." People will call you a fool. But lean over to the person next to you on a subway and say, "How can you smile when innocents are dying in Tibet?" You'll acquire a reputation for great seriousness and also more room to sit down. ...Being gloomy is easier than being cheerful. Anybody can say "I've got cancer" and get.. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| be89d26 | We all walk around with holes in our hearts. But we still walk around. | P.J. Tracy | ||
| e676133 | Magozzi tried to grimace away a growing headache. He wanted to curl up in a ball in the corner, but when Gino was on a fishing expedition for mermaids, you had to throw in a courtesy line. | P.J. Tracy | ||
| fc88e7d | Old age is the harbor of all ills. | Bion of Borysthenes | ||
| a7069ab | There isn't, incidentally, any such thing as an ancient Chinese curse saying, "May you live in interesting times." The phrase seems to be a piece of invented Orientalist folklore coined in the 1930s by First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Austen Chamberlain, half-brother of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain who went off to Munich to appease Hitler. And let's not be silly and forget that the Chamberlain brothers lived in much more accursedly int.. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 5cb209b | Clinton was an ancient monument of liberalism. If Washington were Pharaonic Egypt--and sometimes it is--Hillary would be the Sphinx. With the exception that she never shuts up. And she's hardly immobile. For the past quarter of a century she's been everywhere we looked. So there was the monumental Hillary out in the American electoral desert surrounded by a Republican horde of . . . of whatever small, feckless, puny fauna Egypt has. I've Go.. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 7434bde | We common folk may not be able to match Trump's piggy bank, but even the most high-minded and charitable among us can match his piggishness. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 8eadc19 | The Hollywooden heads would buy a car for almost any purpose except a worthy one. Many automobiles were purchased to attract members of LA's eight or ten opposite sexes. Since the denizens of America's Gomorrah, were incapable of verbalizing any idea more complex than "box office gross," the expensive car served as a substitute for witty come-on and seductive chat." | hollywood humor los-angeles sex | P.J. O'Rourke | |
| 8f87126 | PJ's suggested chant, for pointless protest marches: "Five, four, three, two. We don't have a doggone clue!" | humor pointless protest | P.J. O'Rourke | |
| b8cef88 | Trump's grandfather, a German immigrant, changed the family name from Drumpf to Trump. | P.J. O'Rourke |