Chaunceys Pub Quotes & Sayings

To tell you the truth, sleepless nights are as unusual for me as sumo wrestlers who look good in berets. — Haruki Murakami

Americans are not afraid of the future. — Hasso Plattner

When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture ... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design" ... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it. — Seth Godin

The few times I said to myself anywhere: 'Now that's a nice spot for a permanent home,' I would immediately hear in my mind the thunder of an avalanche carrying away the hundreds of far places which I would destroy by the very act of settling in one particular nook of the earth. — Vladimir Nabokov

There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel,
and the deader the corpse the better. — S. S. Van Dine

We are nothing mankind is all — Ayn Rand

Those who have gone through the high school of reporterdom have acquired a new instinct by which they see and hear only that which can create a sensation, and accordingly their report becomes not only a careless one, but hopelessly distorted. — Hugo Munsterberg