Cringely Club Quotes & Sayings

There are very few honest friends
the demand is not particularly great. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

I got a little tired of movies where I had to shoot people. I got to thinking about the power of film and what that power is. The power is in fact that it really can change people's minds. — Nicolas Cage

Young love-making
that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to
the things whence its subtle interlacings are swung
are scarcely perceptible: momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust. — George Eliot

Their nineteen-sixties with the flowers in the guns and their summers of love, as if all we'd had was winter, all we'd had was rations. Just very good at keeping quiet, is what we were. We had to be. It was the way. Them with their jet-age. — Ali Smith

For me, my heart, that erst did go
Most like a tired child at a show,
That sees through tears the mummers leap,
Would now its wearied vision close,
Would childlike on His love repose,
Who giveth His Beloved, sleep. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star. — Kobo Abe

Relationships have only one main purpose but with two parts: 1) sharing love and 2) learning about removing all obstacles to that love. — Michael Mirdad

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing. — Christopher Hitchens

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find? — Ridley Scott

The sense of all stylistic change is that the underlying view of the world changes. — Nancy Pearcey

Each time you happen to me all over again. — Edith Wharton

If a currency is to become a growing, an increasing reserve currency, there has to be not only a demand for it there has to be a supply of it. — Robert C. Solomon