Gomatamang Quotes & Sayings

I remember endless Apple v. Windows debates in the early '90s when I was in college. Macs were better machines, everyone said; the whole Office thing was a huge pain. It was difficult to transfer files between operating systems, and generally speaking, if you wanted to do Office stuff, you needed a Windows machine. — Michael Arrington

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I used to be a person who just peaked for the big events, not doing too many competitions, but now you've got to go round chasing all the points because if you're not taking them, someone else is. — Jade Jones

Gromit was the name of a cat. When I started modeling the cat I just didn't feel it was quite right, so I made it into a dog because he could have a bigger nose and bigger, longer legs. — Nick Park

There is always power in holding a secret. — Robin Hobb

He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat. — Michael Chabon

Even the physical therapist, who until that day has been seen as an unwelcome tormentor, is pulled into the picture. — Adele Levine

Each work of criticism is supposed to build on the body of work, to increase the total sum of human understanding. It's not like filling your house with more and more beautiful wicker baskets. It's supposed to be cumulative - it believes in progress. — Elif Batuman

What I hide by my language, my body utters. — Roland Barthes

But what becomes of the divinity when it reveals itself in icons, when it is multiplied in simulacra? Does it remain the supreme power that is simply incarnated in images as a visible theology? Or does it volatilize itself in the simulacra that, alone, deploy their power and pomp of fascination - the visible machinery of icons substituted for the pure and intelligible Idea of God? — Jean Baudrillard

Never appear overly greedy for attention, then, for it signals insecurity, and insecurity drives power away. Understand that there are times when it is not in your interest to be the center of attention. When in the presence of a king or queen, for instance, or the equivalent thereof, bow and retreat to the shadows; never compete. — Robert Greene

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices. — Ayn Rand

I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again. — L.M. Montgomery

It takes vast willpower, luck, and skill to be the first. But it takes a gigantic heart to be number two. — Johan Harstad

Our political way of life is by the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God, and of course presupposes the existence of God, the moral ruler of the universe, and a rule of right and wrong, of just and unjust, binding upon man, preceding all institutions of human society and government. — John Quincy Adams