Buckshaw Quotes & Sayings

We weren't getting a fair deal on the budget and I wasn't going to have it. There's a great strand of equity and fairness in the British people - this is our characteristic. There's not a strand of equity and fairness in Europe - they're out to get as much as they can. That's one of those enormous differences. So I tackled it on that basis. — Margaret Thatcher

The stock exchanges have converted from "open outcry" where wild traders face each other, yelling and screaming as in a souk, then go drink together. Traders were replaced by computers, for very small visible benefits and massively large risks. While errors made by traders are confined and distributed, those made by computerized systems go wild - in August 2010, a computer error made the entire market crash (the "flash crash"); in August 2012, as this manuscript was heading to the printer, the Knight Capital Group had its computer system go wild and cause $10 million dollars of losses a minute, losing $480 million. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I always try to sacrifice my body for the team. — Troy Polamalu

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune. — Bruce Springsteen

Your Soul sees your best, most vital self. She holds that vision when you do not. She knows you are worthy. — Elisa Romeo

There is nothing like a conflict to do the difficult work for you. It is an underrated remedy, cowardly as we are, but it makes everything so much easier. — Jens Christian Grondahl

Even in complete silence, Buckshaw had its own unique silence; a silence I would recognize anywhere. — Alan Bradley

You're one of them de Luce girls over from Buckshaw. I'd rec'nize them cold blue eyes anywhere. — Alan Bradley

The main languages out of which web applications are built - whether it's Perl or Python or PHP or any of the other languages - those are all open source languages. So the infrastructure of the web is open source ... the web as we know it is completely dependent on open source. — Mitch Kapor

I am a tip-top starlet. That is my job that I am paid to do. — Madonna Ciccone

Saku's figure before me looked like a morning glory drawn with one stroke of the brush. My only regret was that the drawing was not by the hand of a master. — Soseki Natsume

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head. — Chuck Palahniuk

Beneath his exhaustion, he radiated a serenity that suggested nothing in this place could touch him. Maybe nothing in this world could touch him. It was one of the most beautiful things she'd ever seen. She wanted to be that way, too: at peace with herself, autonomous, free. — Lauren Kate

Believe it or not, I don't own a TV. Crazy huh? I'm not a big movie-goer either. I just feel like I'm watching work. I am always outside and couldn't care less about what's on TV these days. — Jeffrey Donovan