Ethier Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

We now know that something between 85 and 90 percent of most software product features are unwanted and unneeded by customers. That is an enourmous ammount of waste of time and money that ends up on the floor. — Steve Blank

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time. — Jean Rostand

I fully planned to burn the place down behind me on general principle. I was getting the hang of arson. It really sends a message, you know? Not only will I kill your dudes and steal your shit, but I will burn your place down behind me. Yes, I will. — Cherie Priest

It seems we've left skin
in each other's lungs. I should have

looked under your bed skirt
for my wallet, but how

could credit cards compare
to the sneeze after we've parted?

Gone and still you make me
reach for a tissue - still my palms

turn circles in the red
breakwater of your heartbeat.

I want to tell you, I have nothing
but respect for your ribcage

now that we both know
it's not big enough to hold us. — Michael Meyerhofer

Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's because I don't have clarity. This lack of clarity often arises from a feeling of ambivalence - I want to do something, but I don't want to do it; or I want one thing, but I also want something else that conflicts with it. — Gretchen Rubin

I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research. — Jackie Collins

When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty. — Khalil Gibran

Tell yourself what you want to be, then act your part accordingly. — Epictetus

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches. — Logan Pearsall Smith

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did. — Michael Lee-Chin

As if there were safety in stupidity alone. — Henry David Thoreau

I don't want to sleep,' my mother said. 'I want
for God's sake, I want to wake up. — Claire Messud

Dr. White quotes with great confidence and absolute assurance a Papal decree issued in the year 1300 by Pope Boniface VIII., which forbade the mutilation of the human body and consequently hampered all possibility of progress in anatomy for {30} several important centuries in the history of modern science. Indeed, this supposed Papal prohibition of dissection is definitely stated to have precluded all opportunity for the proper acquisition of anatomical knowledge until the first half of the sixteenth century, when the Golden Age of modern anatomy set in. This date being coincident with the spread of the movement known as the Protestant Reformation, many people at once conclude that somehow the liberality of spirit that then came into the world, and is supposed at least to have put an end to all intolerance, — James Joseph Walsh

We'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure. — Clifford Stoll