Ascertainment Theory Quotes & Sayings

1944 - Exploring London in wartime, a city with stiff upper lip, gritted teeth, clenched fists, makes you realize that Paris is a bit of whore.

Every day and every night for weeks now, London has been bleeding and hiding its wounds with impressive dignity. A 'don't show off' attitude prevails. From time to time a sputtering doodle-bug (a VI) shatters the torpor of the overcast sky. One second, sometimes two ... at most three ... of silence. Visualizing that fat cigar with shark fins as it stops dead, sways, idiotically tips over, then goes into a vertical dive. And explodes. Usually it's an entire building that's destroyed.

Apparently the Civil Defense rescue teams observe a very strict rule of discretion and restraint. You never see any panic. In this impassive city detachment is the expression of panic. — Jacques Yonnet

I sometimes think of people's personalities as the negative space around their insecurities. — Lindy West

There was no way to tell, looking at me, that I only had $387 in the bank. Three-piece — Robert B. Parker

Awareness is the birthplace of possibility. Everything you want to do, everything you want to be, starts here. — Deepak Chopra

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free. — Alan Cohen

A library is a growing organism. — S.R. Ranganathan

I have been the one looking up when something dark passed before the sun. And I have been the shadow itself, slipping along the place where earth and water meet the sky. — Ally Condie