Buchette De Manon Quotes & Sayings

The big scandal around IG Farben this week is the unlucky subsidiary Spottbilligfilm AG, whose entire management are about to be purged for sending to OKW weapons procurement a design proposal for a new airborne ray which could turn whole populations, inside a ten-kilometer radius, stone blind. An IG review board caught the scheme in time. Poor Spottbilligfilm. It had slipped their collective mind what such a weapon would do to the dye market after the next war. — Thomas Pynchon

The weaknesses of the system, the inherent dangers of being a part of a domestic monopoly in an industry open to other countries, had not yet revealed themselves. So, while other areas of the American economy remained competitive, no one challenged the auto industry until the full-scale assault of the Japanese in the seventies. When it finally came, the extent of American vulnerability surprised even those who had been critical. — David Halberstam

I allowed myself to think if I could be doing anything in the world, what would I be doing? And what came to mind is I'd be traveling a little bit, I'd be going to classes and I'd be going back to school. — Ricky Williams

So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since. — Alex Cox

The difference nowadays is that when I go on vacation I work some of the time rather than all of the time. — Nick Saban

[I]n scientific matters it is always experience, and never authority without experience, that gives the final verdict, whether in favour or against. — Sigmund Freud

I'll never forget my grandmother's last words. She said 'What are you doing?' — Zach Galifianakis