Peter Hennessy Quotes & Sayings

It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive. — Steve McConnell

Do you know the Ai'oan word for heart? he asks.
I shake my head.
"It's py'a." We're so close, his whisper is right in my ear, and his breath warms the side of my neck. "You are my heart, Pia. — Jessica Khoury

Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can. — John Oliver

Annoyances are strangely not so annoying when the person responsible has endeared himself to you. — Richelle E. Goodrich

There's the mackerel of the cornflake for you, you dirty reader of filth and nastiness. — Anthony Burgess

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck? — Linda Ellerbee

It was so fast. So fast. One minute she was reaching, reaching, almost touching the center of ecstasy itself. The next she was convulsing with something so hot with throbbing pleasure that it was almost pain. An inhuman cry tore out of her throat as she went up like a Chinese rocket and exploded into a million flaming pieces of pure joy. — Diana Palmer

Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric. — Buffy Andrews

Acting makes me feel broke again, it makes me feel unaccomplished. — Ester Dean

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value. — Nat King Cole

The Crusaders come to one immediate decision. They decide that the Orthodox Greek Christians, the Georgian Christians, the Armenian Christians and the Jacobite Christians no longer could hold services in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Only the Latin rite could be celebrated in Jerusalem. — Paul L. Williams

We have to state, without mincing words, that there is an inseparable bond between our faith and the poor. May we never abandon them. — Pope Francis

A man can do a lot of damage in the church. When someone comes here, he's got his guard up. But in church a man's wide open. — John Steinbeck

She wrote the phone number down on another slip of paper, rushed into the bathroom, crumpled up the letter, and flushed it down the toilet. For one paralyzing moment she envisioned federal law enforcement agents hiding somewhere in the White House intercepting her toilet water and reconstructing the letter. But that was impossible. That was the stuff of Orwell's 1984. Yet in some ways, by living at the White House, she had already seen Orwell's masterpiece of "fascism perfected" in a way most Americans could never imagine. She — David Baldacci