Crowds And Rods Quotes & Sayings

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird. — Donald Knuth

Some people lose their nerve for riding or skiing or driving; well, I've lost my nerve for life. — Sophie Kinsella

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the self sacrificing service of a daughter
none of these have an earthly market. To reduce everything to the dirty scales of economic values is to forget that some gifts, like Mary's, are so precious that the heart that offers them will be praised as long as time endures. — Fulton J. Sheen

Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart. — James Branch Cabell

Them chickens is ash and I'm lotion. — Mariah Carey

My men can eat their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas. — George S. Patton

A bad system will beat a good person every time. — W. Edwards Deming

Looking forward to never meeting again,
Jessamin Olea — Kiersten White

Their first free and frantic caresses had been preceded by a brief period of strange craftiness, of cringing stealth. — Vladimir Nabokov

verb swon to swear, derivative of swannee I swan, raising kids is like being pecked to death by a chicken — Amy Metz

A wet dog is lovingest. — James Thurber

It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion. Nothing is more luxurious than this. It is a game and a good game, at least for me; one of the few games which make life, difficult and depressing as it is sometimes, a little more interesting. — Max Beckmann

The more you rely on intellectual and philosophical concepts of God, the more difficult it becomes to simply experience and enjoy the wonder of God. — Mac MacKenzie