Oiliest Store Quotes & Sayings

Most of my colleagues go on backpacking trips when they have to do some thinking. I go to a good hardware store and head for the oiliest, dustiest corners ... If they're really good, they don't hassle me. They let me wander around and think. Young hardware clerks have a lot of hubris. They think they can help you find anything ... Old hardware clerks have learned the hard way that nothing in a hardware store ever gets bought for its nominal purpose. You buy something that was designed to do one thing, and you use it for another. — Neal Stephenson

Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time away from your novel that will help preserve your balance. Exhaustion will affect both your writing's quality and your productivity. — Jeff VanderMeer

Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based. — Al Alvarez

f it hurts you so much, how can it possibly be the right thing for you? — Stephenie Meyer

I had a recurring fantasy in which I took (Rudy Giuliani) out during a press conference (it was nonlethal, just something that put him out of commission for a year or so), saving America from the horror of a President Giuliani. If that sounds like I had some trouble being 'objective,' I did. — Michael Hastings

I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in. — Warren Zevon

I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious. — Albert Einstein

Engineering is a jeans and hoodie culture, and sales is more formal. — Susan Wojcicki

I don't regret either of my marriages - not for a minute. — Alana Stewart

Justice is truth in action. — Benjamin Disraeli

Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness — Meister Eckhart