Escupimos Quotes & Sayings

There are people to whom one need not show off. It's a great comfort sometimes. — Ngaio Marsh

Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved. — Michael D. Barnes

There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out books, who is eight into a series; the other way is that I'm a cartoonist, just starting out. Most cartoonists have long careers: Charles Schulz drew Peanuts for 50 years. — Jeff Kinney

No man ever followed his genius till it misled him. Though the result were bodily weakness, yet perhaps no one can say that the consequences were to be regretted, for these were a life in conformity to higher principles. — Henry David Thoreau

All cats are grey in the dark, he had written in one chapter. So remember that how much you can see of a situation depends on how much light you can shine upon it. — Alexander McCall Smith

They all have excellent resumes ... So what I'm trying to find out is how they will behave under pressure. — Hyman G. Rickover

People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking. — Steve Goodman

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism. — Arthur Phillips

The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything. — Larry Wall

Had Mr. Gibbon lived in France, Spain, or Italy, he might with the fame reason have ranked the doctrine of transubstantiation, and the worship of saints and angels among the essentials of Christianity, as the doctrines of the trinity and of the atonement. — Joseph Priestley

Because your balls are in a vise and I'm the only one who can pull them out," I said. He arched an elegant silver eyebrow. "Okay," I said. "That came out a little more homoerotic than I intended." "Indeed," said the Merlin. — Jim Butcher

The good music companies do an amazing thing. They have people who can pick the person that's gonna be successful out of 5,000 candidates. And there's not enough information to do that - it's an intuitive process. — Steve Jobs