New York Islander Quotes & Sayings

From the sky, everything looked fake. The buildings were doll houses. The cars were Matchbox racers. People scuttled about, but they weren't really people anymore. Their little lives meant absolutely nothing from this altitude. — P.S. Baber

I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader. — Harriet Harman

Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see. — Jane Bowles

And these are your reasons, my lord?"
"Do you think I have others?" said Lord Vetinari. "My motives, as ever, are entirely transparent."
Hughnon reflected that 'entirely transparent' meant either that you could see right through them or that you couldn't see them at all. — Terry Pratchett

He pulled his nose out of her cleavage and turned to me. "Gaylord Brown," he said. "It's the perfect name because I'm gay and I'm brown. — Janet Evanovich

Without work all life goes rotten. — Albert Camus

Nobody has control of anything. We're all beggars at the throne of fate. But sometimes he has mercy! — Orson Scott Card

I don't want to get too dippy about all this. If you take the view of the scientist and everything is in a state of vibration, then every note is a vibration, which has a certain frequency, and you know that if you put 40 beats into a frequency it's going to be the same note every time. You take that into infrasound and people can be made to be sick, actually killed. Taking it the other way, not to be too depressing, what about euphoria, etc., and what about consciousness being totally ... no, I won't go into that one. Time warps. — Jimmy Page

I always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer. — Michael Jackson

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. — Fred Allen

It's always the balance between the individual's subjective experience and the social structural condition. As individuals we have access to more than we've ever had before. Giving up our data seems a small price to pay, especially if, as you say, we don't feel we have anything to hide. — Astra Taylor