Frottola Quotes & Sayings

Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and it can be mined very easily. — David McCandless

I said, irritated by his tone. "There's no rest for me till she's out in the Indian Ocean and not much of it even then."
He puffed at his cigar moodily, as if transformed. "Yes. That's what it amounts to," he said in a musing tone. It was as if a ponderous curtain had rolled up disclosing an unexpected Captain Giles. But it was only for a moment, just the time to let him add, "Precious little rest in life for anybody. Better not think of it. — Joseph Conrad

You walk into a strip club with a wad of cash; they all flock around you. Strippers are just pigeons with tits. They go where the bread is. — Chris Hardwick

Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret. — Maggie Stiefvater

When you undervalue who you are, the world will undervalue what you do and vice versa. — Suze Orman

Boring' is not a virtue.
-May — Seanan McGuire

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along. — A.S. Byatt

First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends — Willie Pep

You've been unable to adjust to the idea of war.'
'Yes, sir.'
'You have a morbid aversion to dying. — Joseph Heller

Chuck said, "Hey. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" Cawley looked over at him. "I'll bite. How many?" "Fish," Chuck said and let loose a bright bark of a laugh. — Dennis Lehane

I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning a man, conquering a woman, beating someone out of something, abusing each other's dignity in order to prove that I am a man, I am a woman. — Toni Cade Bambara

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

No! Leadership is not the business of people who need to be motivated! — Amit Chatterjee