Nonce Urban Quotes & Sayings

If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design. — Ralf Speth

People always have an opinion. Doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it's wrong, but we have to respect their opinion. — Michael Clarke Duncan

Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either. — John Conyers

Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur. — Charles Caleb Colton

You could reduce people's fears if you gave them some useful information before things went wrong. It's really important to create a sense of confidence in the public in their own abilities before a disaster because they're the only ones who are going to be there. No one's going to help you for at least 24 to 72 hours. So it would be good to know more about it. — Amanda Ripley

After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over. — Alfred E. Perlman

Whereas Hunt recommended universal charity, Keats, feeling himself 'in a Mist', relied on a knowing passivity: 'Men should bear with each other - there lives not the Man who may not be cut up, aye hashed to pieces on his weakest side'. — Nicholas Roe

I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology. — Aaron Levie

If you do come across 'Sanctus' in a bookshop, please see past the cross on the cover and the sinister outline of a monk and just read the first page and make your own mind up. If it's still not for you, then that's fine; just put it back and walk away. — Simon Toyne

To master life, control the mind. To control the mind, guard your speech. — Radhe Maa

Yellow light. Yellow light!" And she ran right through the red. "Jesus Christ, you can't drive. — Katie McGarry

I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds. — Sylvia Plath

I've always been a huge fan of thrillers like David Fincher's 'Se7en.' I am fascinated by the disturbing, dark underbelly of life. I find such films deeply engrossing. They delve deep into the human psyche, and that's a place worth exploring. — Emraan Hashmi

He sneered and bared his teeth, but then Razor knocked over a platter of fruit, and he hurried off with a curse. Leanansidhe threw up her hands.
"Keirran, dove. Your gremlin. Please keep it under control." The Exile Queen pinched the bridge of her nose and sighed heavily. "Worse than having Robin Goodfellow in my house," she murmured, as Kenzie clapped her hands, and Razor bounced happily into her lap. — Julie Kagawa