Conectores Quotes & Sayings

Why does almost every ad agency in the world set the time on a watch at 10:10 before photographing it? — Philippe Petit

It was a wartime story, goodies versus baddies, lots of explosions and shooting. The Germans always shouted 'Aiiieeee!' as they died. Atkins wondered what he would choose, confronted with similar circumstances. 'Aiiieeee!' seemed to him to lack the necessary gravitas and originality, as well as sounding a bit, well, German. But then who knew what might come to mind, in those final moments? — Alastair Reynolds

The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons. — Frank S. Nugent

We were very focused on becoming profitable from a very early time, which was not true of most companies in the bubble — Marissa Mayer

I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords. — Rachel Sklar

ALLODIUM (ALLO'DIUM) n.s.[A word of very uncertain derivation, but most probably of German original.]A possession held in absolute independence, without any acknowledgment of a lord paramount. It is opposed to fee, or feudum, which intimates some kind of dependance. There are no allodial lands in England, all being held either mediately or immediately of the king. — Samuel Johnson

Sin must be within God's eternal decrees in some sense in which He is not the author of it ... We must conclude then that within the decrees of God, there are decrees of permission of those things of which God Himself is not the author — J. Oliver Buswell

There was something unusual about him, or something behind him. It might be that he was bookish - never came to see you without taking up the book on the table (he was now reading, with his bootlaces trailing on the floor); or that he was a gentleman, which showed itself in the way he knocked the ashes out of his pipe, and in his manners of course to women. — Virginia Woolf

My ethic is: 'Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.' You can be as careful as you want, but you're going to die anyway, so why not have fun? — Lemmy Kilmister

When we graduate from childhood into adulthood, we're thrown into this confusing, Cthulhu-like miasma of life, filled with social and career problems, all with branching choices and no correct answers. — Felicia Day

I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize. — Bruce Beutler

He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough. — Robin McKinley

Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth. — Rosa Parks