Nitpicking Boss Quotes & Sayings

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. — Charles Caleb Colton

[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment. — Elizabeth I

It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. — Jodi Picoult

That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me. — Zhang Ziyi

A few months ago, I was sitting morosely at my desk, wondering why I had ever agreed to review Barbara Bush: A Memoir for an English newspaper. The experience was proving to be a degradation of the act of reading. Imagine, if you will, being strapped into a chair and made to listen to Liberace playing the piano for hour upon hour. Or imagine being fed chocolate dinner mints, like a hapless goose, until you are on the verge of explosion. Such was my lot. — Christopher Hitchens

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. — Wyndham Lewis

We will all greet fate, on the other side. — Marissa Meyer

C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into which any random function may write random values without having a clue where they point, has not been debunked as the sheer idiocy it really is. — Erik Naggum

I wish we could grow up about it, I'm sure we are contributing to global warming, and we must do all we can to reduce that, but our climate has always changed. The Romans had vineyards in Yorkshire. We're all on this bandwagon of 'Ban the 4x4 in Fulham'. Why didn't we have global warming during the Industrial Revolution? In those days you couldn't have seen across the street for all the carbon emissions and the crap coming out of the chimneys. — Alan Titchmarsh