Desiderenzia Quotes & Sayings

The worst deformities, the foulest stains, disfiguring and blackening all the rest, are the very parts of Fijian nature which, while the most strongly characteristic, are such that may only be hurriedly mentioned, dimly hinted at, or passed by altogether in silence. — James Calvert

Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career. — Rupert Penry-Jones

If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong. — James Surowiecki

It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me the same as saying that the three great developments in twentith century engineering are the airplane, the computer, and the pop-top aluminum can. Chaos and fractals are not even twentieth century ideas: chaos was first observed by Poincare and fractals were familiar to Cantor a century ago, although neither man had the computer at his disposal to show the rest of the world the beauty he was seeing. — Robert L. Devaney

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age. — Ram Dass

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads. — David Frum

Some drink. Some do drugs. I writes — Pamela Morris

You think I'd stop with a kiss?"
"You assume I'd want you to? — Kresley Cole

I've watched 'Clueless' as many times as humanly possible. Like, I would run home from school to watch it. Like, I can quote it backwards. — Krysten Ritter

Doesn't just about everybody disappoint their parents? They say all they want is for us to be happy, but what they really want is for us to be their do-over. Their second chance at life. — Eileen Cook

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you. — Kobe Bryant

Nothing seems crueler
or more ironic
than these upper crusters who never pay a dime for their high-priced shrinks or reflexology sessions to call those who just want that tumor removed from their uterus a bunch of commies. Well, the revolution is at hand and let's hope all those uninsured commies give the rich such a headache that a whole bottle of Advil won't be enough to take the pain way. — Michael Moore