Atropellos A La Quotes & Sayings

He was looking at me, and I wondered whether he could feel how much I wanted to touch him. — Dana Reinhardt

Let's live a lie for today.
You'll spin tales
and pretend to love me.
And I'll smile; you'll not realize it's fake
Then I'll pretend
your pretensions don't cause me pain. — Sreesha Divakaran

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all. — Mahatma Gandhi

One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems. — Jon Postel

Soon after [George Yeo] became a politician, he made a famous speech, and for the first time, the term "OB markers" was used in political discourse. He was using golfing language to vividly make the point that Singapore needed OB markers to demarcate areas of public life that should remain out of bounds to social activism and the media. Otherwise, society paid an unacceptably high price. His essential point was that Singaporeans worked better if the cover of the banyan tree did not remain so broad. He was signalling that the state should pull back and give the people more free play. — Cheong Yip Seng

You are not special. There is no plan for you. Nothing happens for a reason. Just try not to die and shut up. — Alec Sulkin

Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden; it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience. — Bridget Riley

Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! — Thomas Paine

I stay awake half the night, still afraid that the smallest twitch will wake me up and none of this will have happened. — Nyrae Dawn

When running a Ponzi scheme, how does one avoid enormous, unexpected withdrawals - runs on the bank, so to speak - that would pull back the curtain and reveal a little man blowing smoke? One way would be to attract a core of investors who could be counted on to never withdraw more than a small percentage of principal each year. — Mitchell Zuckoff

Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff. — Scott Cook

Style, like poplin, all too often conceals eczema. — Albert Camus

I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening. — Emilie Autumn