Corporatised Quotes & Sayings

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff. — Carl Sagan

You try to make every word count, so there's no doubt what you're talking about. When you're young, you waffle away. Well, I'm done with that. I think it's much more interesting to say just what you mean. — Nick Lowe

The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there. — Anne Enright

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions. — Suze Orman

Christ is the door that opens into God's presence and lets the soul into His very bosom, faith is the key that unlocks the door; but the Spirit is He that makes this key. — William Gurnall

We must live in groups; other people are like nutrients for us, and are absolutely essential for our survival. — Willard Gaylin

In this respect you, unworthy companion of my sad life, resemble the public, to whom one must never present the delicate scents that only exasperate them, but instead give them only dung, chosen with care. — Charles Baudelaire

The Strategic Bombing Survey estimates that "probably more persons lost their lives by fire at Tokyo in a 6-hour period than at any [equivalent period of] time in the history of man." The fire storm at Dresden may have killed more people but not in so short a space of time. More than 100,000 men, women and children died in Tokyo on the night of March 9-10, 1945; a million were injured, at least 41,000 seriously; a million in all lost their homes. Two thousand tons of incendiaries delivered that punishment - in the modern notation, two kilotons. But the wind, not the weight of bombs alone, created the conflagration, and therefore the efficiency of the slaughter was in some sense still in part an act of God. — Richard Rhodes

One evil begets another and another. — Bronwen Griffiths

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability. — Brene Brown

Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised. — Iain Banks

To Pakistan? Or Afghanistan? Or Wherever-the-fuck-istan? — Daniel Silva

There were others, such as Jack London,who offered their readers such a respite from the miserable horror of existence that their books were like gifts from the gods. (Character of Tristan Sadler in "the Absolutist") — John Boyne

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends. — Caryl Rivers

For the most part, the American film market has become very corporatised, even independent film to a degree, and because of the corporate management mentality, they want to take the safe way. — Anthony LaPaglia

It was a state of mind - and nothing put a female there faster than the male she wanted staring at her the way Xcor was now. — J.R. Ward

The pleasure of love is in loving. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld