Djamila Knopf Quotes & Sayings

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want. — Robin Sloan

Beware The Court of Owls, that watches all the time, ruling Gotham from a shadowed perch, behind granite and lime. They watch you at your hearth, they watch you in your bed speak not a whispered word of them or they'll send the Talon for your head. — Scott Snyder

Used to be goddy Now uptown feeling shoddy Bah, haiku don't rhyme — Rick Riordan

You'd be doing us both a favor.' 'This drives me bats. You know this drives me bats.' Orin and Hal's term for this routine is Politeness Roulette. This Moms-thing that makes you hate yourself for telling her the truth about any kind of problem because of what the consequences will be for her. It's like to report any sort of need or problem is to mug her. — David Foster Wallace

We wrote our first blog post before we wrote our first line of code. — Jon Miller

When a snore loud enough to do a man proud fills the room, I can't hold my laughter back. It's the comic relief I desperately need. She does it again, and I marvel that such a tiny thing can make such a loud noise. Dear God, this woman may need sinus surgery along with everything else. — Sydney Landon

Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need a public debate about the moral limits of markets. — Michael J. Sandel

This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film. — Michael W. Smith

a liberated man, and what I do has nothing to do with anybody but me and my whore of a mother. She has to pay." "I thought that your parents lived down south, Hugh?" "You were meant to. I watched my father die under a tractor, and spat on his dead face. Later, I fixed my mother and — Michael Kerr

Judge no one until you know their circumstances. No matter how awful they seemed, sometimes there was a valid reason for their behaviour. Granted, some people were just mean and corrupt, but not always. Many people were just in pain, and by acting out, they were only trying to protect themselves from being hurt more. — Sherrilyn Kenyon