Merchantman Menu Quotes & Sayings

You get your competent but bored, insecure and hence stodgy teacher talking to an audience divided between engineering students, who are going to be responsible for making bridges that won't fall down or airplanes that won't suddenly plunge vertically into the ground at six hundred miles an hour, and who by definition get sweaty palms and vindictive attitudes when their teacher suddenly veers off track and begins raving about wild and completely nonintuitive phenomena; and physics students, who derive much of their self-esteem from knowing that they are smarter and morally purer than the engineering students, and who by definition don't want to hear about anything that makes no fucking sense. — Neal Stephenson

Well, there's always Nevada," Benny said. "You can buy anything from a hand laser to an atom bomb there. — Joe Haldeman

Arise,awake,stop not until your goal is achieved. — Swami Vivekananda

When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year. — Wynton Marsalis

Holy fuck. This man and those hands... he doesn't play fair. At all. He presses buttons he's got no business pressing. — J.M. Darhower

I'd set out to hike the trail so that I could reflect upon my life, to think about everything that had broken me and make myself whole again. — Cheryl Strayed

Picasso created blank spaces through which an imagination could fly. — Peggy Kopman-Owens

Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first. — Angela Ahrendts

This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful. — Sarah Ruhl

We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation. — Lester B. Pearson