37k Modern Quotes & Sayings

When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music. — Anthony Kiedis

The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. — Miuccia Prada

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. — Nathaniel S. Borenstein

Typing is no substitute for thinking. — Richard Hamming

The greatest gift children can give you is that, for the first time, you're not the center of your own universe. — JJ Feild

Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There's no how-to road map to style. It's about self-expression and, above all, attitude. — Iris Apfel

As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft. — Erica Jong

Senior managers at the Royal Bank of Canada were now arguing that the bank should create a Canadian dark pool, route their Canadian customers' stock market orders into it, and then sell to high-frequency traders the right to operate inside the dark pool. Brad thought that it made a lot more sense for RBC simply to expose the new game for what it was, and perhaps establish themselves as the only broker on Wall Street not conspiring to screw investors. "The only card left to play was honesty," as Rob Park put it. — Michael Lewis

Government has got to open up and engage citizenry as partners. — Cory Booker

Isabel observed an etiquette of the telephone: a call before eight in the morning was an emergency; between eight and nine it was an intrusion; thereafter calls could be made until ten in the evening, although anything after nine-thirty required an apology for the disturbance. After ten one was into emergency time again. — Alexander McCall Smith