Gutenbergian Quotes & Sayings

The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children. — William Shakespeare

[On culture] It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall. — Brian Chesky

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You are a guy smashes heads... you aren't a smart guy, are ya!? — Deyth Banger

I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form. There is a long road ahead, and the stars are only way stations, but we have begun the journey. To be born in this age is a precious gift, and I regret the prospect of my own death only because I will leave so many pages of man's destiny - if you will excuse the Gutenbergian image - tantalizingly unread. But perhaps, as I've tried to demonstrate in my examination of the postliterate culture, the story begins only when the book closes. — Marshall McLuhan

I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face. — Adam Ant

What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running? — Steve Prefontaine

The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, - but generally to be obtained at your neighbor's expense. — John Maynard Keynes

It is a high spiritual truth that we create with our judgements. — Bryant McGill

The whole Esther Williams of it all. The ostrich ballet. Like pirouetting feather dusters; their paddle feet in fourth position. — Durga Chew-Bose

Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China to be filleted, then sent back to Scottish shops and restaurants, than to pay Scottish filleters. — Rose George

As we enter the 21st Century it is clear that we have entered an unprecedented global age in which our diverse cultures, religions, philosophies, worldviews and perspectives encounter one another in the marketplace of our global village. It is now clear that our future sustainability on this planet calls for radical advances in our rational and human capacities to negotiate the powerful forces between worlds as the human family moves towards a sustainable global civilization. — Ashok Gangadean

It is that dream we carry that something miraculous will happen that it must happen - that time will open that the heart will open that doors will open and that the rock face will open that springs will gush forth - that the dream will open and that one morning we'll glide in to a harbour we didn't know was there. — Olav H. Hauge

Things do change and, unlike the Middle East and the traffic in Los Angeles, sometimes they can even get better. — Jeff Kahn

Sure, it was terrible and all, but you have to ask yourself: If the whole city was flooded, why couldn't they just swim to safety? — Zach Braff