Claughton Capital Eric Schreiber Quotes & Sayings

When your house contains such a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi re-verberators, antennae, conduits, freezers, heaters -when it contains so many services that the hardware could stand up by itself without any assistance from the house, why have a house hold it up. When the cost of all this tackle is half of the total outlay (or more, as it often is) what is the house doing except concealing your mechanical pudenda from the stares of folks on the sidewalk? — Reyner Banham

If our life was perfect ... heaven would be meaningless! — Timothy Pina

Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us. — David Suzuki

I'm a politician, Gwenvael! Of course, I don't have a conscience. — G.A. Aiken

I just try to keep going and work on projects that are exciting to me, with people I respect and enjoy and want to work with. That takes me in different directions sometimes, but it's all been a pretty good ride. — Tom McCarthy

If you must fail, fail spectacularly. — Ransom Riggs

My story isn't a pretty one. The bumps in the road were monumental and infinite. But it's my story. And the one thing that holds true is this... Despite the hardships, I made it through to the other side. — Jessica Prince

He thought of Darwin sleeping out on the pampas during his Beagle trip, a middle-class white kid travelling the world, the first of the backpackers. It was only afterwards, really, that he had made any sense of what he had seen. Alex wondered what, in the fullness of time, he himself would make sense of, what small, crucial detail might be lodging itself in his brain that would shake his life to its foundations. — Nino Ricci

A library is thought in cold storage. — Herbert Samuel

We're like everyone else, I guess. We promise that something is forever, when it is really only as long as it takes for us to tire of it.
When she walked away, and out of the door, it was like she was leaving forever. — Jennifer Lynch

One hundred years from now, I expect the Tatas to be much bigger than it is now. More importantly, I hope the Group comes to be regarded as being the best in India.. best in the manner in which we operate, best in the products we deliver, and best in our value systems and ethics. Having said that, I hope that a hundred years from now we will spread our wings far beyond India. — Ratan Tata