Adcroft School Quotes & Sayings

Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included. — Patrick Swayze

In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations. — Percy Williams Bridgman

The economy made me focus on designing more must-haves. — Tracy Reese

Ah, you always go for the ones who don't really want you — Jack Kerouac

If it burns, blows up or acts like alien blood then call me. — Alexander Fontana

There is nothing more beautiful, I think, than the evanescent fleeting images and sentiments presented by a language one is just becoming familiar with - ideas that flit across the mental sky, shaped and tinted by capricious fancy. — Helen Keller

This family knew that Dresden was gone. Those with eyes had seen it burn and burn, understood that they were on the edge of a desert now. Still-they had opened for business, had polished the glass and wound the clocks and stirred the fires, and waited and waited to see who would come. — Kurt Vonnegut

Trying to "fix" the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache. — Guy Finley

We adore each other, and yet are afraid to love; we are consumed with a passion which we both condemn. Zadig — Voltaire

Never fall into the mistake of believing, said the examiner, that things are everywhere the way they are here, wherever here is, wherever everywhere is. — Jesse Ball

It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper is scrambling to parlay their existing advantage into dominance on the Internet. But it is way less sure [that this will occur] than the certainty 20 years ago that the basic business would grow steadily, so there's more downside risk. The perfectly fabulous economics of this business could become grievously impaired. — Charlie Munger

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

You know, it's fashionable right now for people to be cynical. We go in cycles like this and right now a lot of people are saying, 'Oh, America is doing terribly' and 'What are we going to do?' — Barack Obama

Most of us will get turned on at night by the very same things that we will demonstrate against during the day - the erotic mind is not very politically correct. — Esther Perel

Ah, my friend, that is the only true church organization, when heads and hearts unite in working for the welfare of the human race! — Lydia M. Child