Farringdon Road Quotes & Sayings

Most recently, as the medical value of marijuana has been rediscovered, medicine has been searching for ways to "pharmaceuticalize" the plant - find a way to harness its easily accessible benefits in a patch or inhaler that doctors can prescribe, corporations patent, and governments regulate. Whenever possible, Paracelsus's lab-coated descendants have synthesized the active ingredients in plant drugs, allowing medicine to dispense with the plant itself - and any reminders of its pagan past. — Michael Pollan

Crash smiled slowly. He didn't waste words while fighting. It was useless to taunt the dead. — T.L. Shreffler

Founders should think of their company as a product and build it and shape it with the same passion and care. — Roelof Botha

Can you make it past me, thief-catcher?" Mat called, careful not to take his eyes off the man waiting for him with blade poised to strike. Sandar had insisted irritably on "thief-catcher," not "thief-taker," though Mat could not see any difference.
"I cannot," Sandar called from behind him. "If you move to let me by, you will lose room to swing that oar you call a staff, and he will spit you like a grunt."
Like a what? "Well, think of something, Tairen. This ragamuffin is grating my nerves."
The man in the gold-striped coat sneered. "You will be honored to die on the blade of the High Lord Darlin, peasant, if I allow it so." It was the first time he had deigned to speak. "Instead, I think I will have the pair of you hung by the heels, and watch while the skin is stripped from your bodies - "
"I do not think I'd like that," Mat said. — Robert Jordan

Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest? — Lily Tomlin

There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere. — Robert Zoellick

He also liked to root around in sales and street markets, and picked up a violin in London, on Farringdon Road, for which he took some lessons. — Andrew Hodges

I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and small stage. — Natalie Dormer