Hanway 125 Quotes & Sayings

The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more. — Albert Camus

Unimaginable perhaps; but the unimaginable is there to be imagined. — J.M. Coetzee

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties. — Mason Cooley

We hated not knowing something. We hated not knowing who was going to walk Spanish down the hall. How would our bills get paid? And where would we find new work? We knew the power of the credit card companies and the collection agencies and the consequences of bankruptcy. Those institutions were without appeal. They put your name into a system, and from that point forward, vital parts of the American dream were foreclosed upon. A backyard swimming pool. A long weekend in Vegas. A low-end BMW. These were not Jeffersonian ideals, perhaps, on par with life and liberty, but at this advanced stage, with the West won and the Cold War over, they, too, seemed among our inalienable rights. — Joshua Ferris

Clipper took a relatively simple problem, encryption between two phones, and turned it into a much more complex problem, encryption between two phones but that can be decrypted by the government under certain conditions and, by making the problem that complicated, that made it very easy for subtle flaws to slip by unnoticed. I think it demonstrated that this problem is not just a tough public policy problem, but it's also a tough technical problem. — Matt Blaze

Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all. — Mark Crispin Miller

In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything. — Tom Peters

Then we change our possy and lie down again to play cards. We know how to do that: to play cards, to swear, and to fight. Not much for twenty years;
and yet too much for twenty years. — Erich Maria Remarque

I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of masculinity is a little like having to wear an ill-fitting coat for one's entire life (by contrast, I imagine femininity to be an oppressive sense of nakedness). — Paul Theroux

I had already passed beyond the point of death and was now keeping company with ghosts who had joyfully come to claim me as one of their own. — Paul Sayer

I have always maintained a strong opposition to marriage because I would have to be in serious denial to pretend I wasn't born with a personality for divorce. Whatever the opposite of amicable is, that's how my breakups tend to play out. — Chelsea Handler

Plumes of hot meat and bubbles of trapped gases like methane - along with the air from the lungs of the deceased moles - would periodically rise through the mole crust and erupt volcanically from the surface, a geyser of death blasting mole bodies free of the planet. — Randall Munroe

When I was dealing with cancer, I was working on a book about finances. I realized that the same methodology that the doctors were using to cure me, you could use to cure your finances. Health and wealth are so linked, it's amazing. — Hill Harper

Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders. — Megan Gallagher

You never know who anybody is. Even the people closest to you. — Jude Watson