Laicized Quotes & Sayings

What are they trying to do?" Davison asked. "I never heard of anything like this."
I took my eyes off Ginger's legs. "Gangsters," I said.
"But they've gone out of style," Davison said. "They don't have gangsters any more."
"Suppose you go out and tell them that," I said. — Jonathan Latimer

Coming from Ireland, it's quite hard to do a startup because you're culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, it's much easier. It's the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood. — John Collison

Having colleagues nearby, whether at the beach or in a crypt, means the ideas are always flowing — Richard Branson

My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable. — George Santayana

I want to build as many worlds as possible - each a version of ours with a crack running through it - and not be anchored to any of them. — Benjamin Percy

It's not illegal to be an asshole. — Ariel Pink

Sex is just sex. Sometimes it's really good, true, but it's nothing in da grand scheme a' things. We may have fucked, but we never made love. — Tonia Brown

They could at least part with love. It was like Tor to make the gesture; her father, for all his kindness, was too proud - or too much a king; and she was too proud, or too bitter, or too young. — Robin McKinley

I wanted to hold everything in place with my thin little arm and weak spirit. I wanted to do what I could with my unreliable body to try and deal with the many scary things that were going to start happening from now on. I wanted to try. — Banana Yoshimoto

Generally speaking, companies get into bankruptcy as a kind of meritocracy. Somebody made some sort of big mistake, to get into bankruptcy, and very often, a part of the mistake is too much leverage. — Wilbur Ross

If we as a society do not understand 'the cloud,' in all its aspects - what data it holds, how it works, what the bargains are we make as we engage with it, we'll all be the poorer for it, I believe. — John Battelle