Canonicos Quotes & Sayings

Machinery which is not used is not capital. — Karl Marx

And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out. — David Foster Wallace

I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn. — Christie Hefner

I nod and hope he backs the hell away from me, because I'm about to have an asthma attack and I don't even have asthma. — Colleen Hoover

My anxiety and pain during the Scud attacks on Israel, where some of my family lives, did not cancel out my fear and anguish for the victims of the bombardment of Iraq, where I also have relatives. — Ella Shohat

Gossip is nature's telephone. — Sholom Aleichem

'The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys. — Rachel Johnson

Whenever we turn on our computer, we are plunged into an ecosystem of interruption technologies, — Nicholas Carr

Language construction will BREED a mythology. J.R.R. Tolkien — Philip Zaleski

You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious. — Kathleen Turner

It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you. — Jamaica Kincaid

I have no way of telling what I miss
I am the only one who misses it — W.S. Merwin

I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed. — A.S. Byatt

Most of life is an ongoing process of learning. We don't stop learning once we grow out of childhood and we don't stop learning once we finish school. Learning is not necessarily a painful process but it can be when we internally punish or abuse ourselves for mistakes. We do this when we forget that:
1. We are always learning.
2. Mistakes are a part of the process of learning.
3. If we knew the right answer, we would use the right answer.
4. Sometimes, the right answer is only revealed by choosing the wrong answer.
5. Maybe then, it wasn't the wrong answer after all. — Emily Maroutian

Don't let the fear of statistics keep you from launching a continual improvement program. The statistics hurdle is easily overcome, going out of business is not. — John Novak