Day Tight Compartments Quotes & Sayings

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I would think my reality is pretty bad, but definitely not bad enough to endure this every morning. But maybe that would explain what turns people into alcoholics. You drink to escape the emotional pain you're in, and then the next day you do it all over again to get rid of the physical pain. So you drink more and you drink more often and pretty soon you're drunk all the time and it becomes just as bad, if not worse, than the reality you were attempting to escape from in the first place. Only now, you need an escape from the escape, so you find something even stronger than the alcohol. And maybe that's what turns alcoholics — Colleen Hoover

Does it seem reasonable that she should play so wonderfully, and live so quietly? I suspect that one day she will be wonderful in both. The water-tight compartments in her will break down, and music and life will mingle. — E. M. Forster

What power that girl wielded, though there was nothing striking or unusual about her - unless one considered her long braid and her common sense! — Knut Hamsun

You've never been in a scrape yet but what it came about by accident. The thing is, no one else has these accidents. — Georgette Heyer

I just think you should get married if you want to have some kids. — John Corbett

Is your work an interpretation of your understanding of reality, or is it simply a picture of your feelings? — Millard Sheets

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments. — Dale Carnegie

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again. — David Nicholls

That is when the commitment to change would be put to the test: when the cameras are gone and the reporters are gone and the glamour disappears and the tedium sets in - the crushing tedium. That is when you realize, in your solitary moments, how much of your life you will have to sacrifice to change the world. — Dave Eggers