Quomodocumque Quotes & Sayings

Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. — Alfred North Whitehead

Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love. — Elizabeth David

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it. — Bruce Springsteen

If you were a young kid, 19, 20 years old who has two children and a third one on the way and refuses to leave them. A kid who was on welfare, because he refused to steal anybody's property or take anybody's money. You found life a lot tougher. — Barry White

Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these grains also move with great velocities, they act at a distance one upon another, but this action is so slight at great distances that their trajectories are rectilineal; nevertheless, from time to time, two of them may come near enough together to be deviated from their course, like a comet that passed too close to Jupiter. In a word, in the eyes of a giant, to whom our Suns were what our atoms are to us, the Milky Way would only look like a bubble of gas. — Henri Poincare

I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other. — Robyn Hitchcock

Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown. — Loretta Lynn

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art. — George Santayana

This morning it occurred to me for the first time that my body, my faithful companion and friend, truer and better known to me than my own soul, may be after all only a sly beast who will end by devouring his master. — Marguerite Yourcenar

The sea calls us home — J.R.R. Tolkien

Services should also hide their databases to avoid falling into one of the most common sorts of coupling that can appear in traditional service-oriented architectures, and use data pumps or event data pumps to consolidate data across multiple services for reporting purposes. — Sam Newman

Show me an executive that works long hard hours and I'll show you a bad executive. — Ronald Reagan

When the Kyoto Protocol enters into the force tomorrow, the world will take a significant and long-awaited first step towards stemming global warming. Instead of stepping forward as the world leader on climate change, however, the Bush Administration is clinging to the role of world obstructionist. — Nancy Pelosi