Infantine Retrousse Quotes & Sayings

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood. — Jean Baudrillard

In Bio last year, I learned that blood is actually a dark maroon when it's inside your body. It's the exposure to oxygen that turns it bright red. And there must have been a lot of oxygen in my bathroom, because that blood was bright, bright red. — Leila Sales

But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest. — Logan Pearsall Smith

The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton and accounting comes in, and you wave it somewhere else and marketing chimes in with accounting, and they all sound very glorious. But management is more like orchestra conducting during rehearsals, when everything is going wrong. — Henry Mintzberg

Take my word for it: More people will like you if you believe that people are good until proven bad. — Guy Kawasaki

True warriors are fierce because their training is fierce. — Miyamoto Musashi

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service. — Scott McClellan

I see the US Open as glamorous. That's the word that comes to mind. — Eugenie Bouchard

Do we really have to talk about professionalism? Everyone here is a professional. A master builder who puts up a wall that hasn't collapsed is certainly acting professionally, but professionalism ought to be the norm, and we should only be talking about the dodgy builder who puts up a wall that doesn't collapse....This insistence on professionalism, that it is something special, makes it sound as if people are generally lousy workers. — Umberto Eco

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is the pain that made me cry,
and then there is the strength that
made me stop crying.
So I am glad the pain came
because without it I would not have
discovered my strength. — Moffat Machingura

The principle of fashion is ... the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Ford had another Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the drink which has been described as the alcoholic equivalent of a mugging - expensive and bad for the head. — Douglas Adams