Shenzhenshi Quotes & Sayings

You want to come up with your own points of view first and then test them against what you see. — Roberto Orci

Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession. — John Ruskin

But seat-back video screens and the hard frames that surround them pose a safety challenge, partly because of the potential for injuries caused by head strikes, and partly because the computers and the electrical systems that serve them have to be both fireproof and fully isolated from the plane's - so that crossed wires in somebody's seat don't allow a ten-year-old playing a video game to suddenly take control of the cockpit. Largely as a result, in-flight entertainment systems are almost unbelievably expensive. The rule of thumb, I was told, is "a thousand dollars an inch" - meaning that the small screen in the back of each economy seat can cost an airline ten thousand dollars, plus a few thousand for its handheld controller. — Anonymous

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. — Ovid

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; — Kahlil Gibran

When the end is lawful the means are also lawful, — Len Deighton

This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew. — Philip Massinger

We're playing the Superbowl this year, we're opening up before the coins drop. — Peter Criss