Precursory Review Quotes & Sayings

Tell me, when you are alone with him [ Max Beerbohm ] Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask? — Oscar Wilde

Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics. — Mason Cooley

Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower. — Robert McKee

One of the best ways to ruin a program is to make massive changes to its structure in the name of improvement. Some programs never recover from such "improvements." The problem is that it's very hard to get the program working the same way it worked before the "improvement. — Robert C. Martin

But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages
you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change (135). — Lynn Barber

There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken. — Juan Gabriel Vasquez

The great thing about costume jewelry is that there's something for everyone - there are very humorous pieces and very extravagant and outrageous pieces. — Judith Miller

Maybe all women should be robots, he thinks with a tinge of acid: the flesh-and-blood ones are out of control. — Margaret Atwood

Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet. — Alfred North Whitehead