Silverson Machines Quotes & Sayings

Leadership used to be about ideas, setting an example and doing the right thing. Today, if you make enough money for the firm (and are not currently an ax murderer) you will be promoted into a position of influence. — Greg Smith

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all — Gregory Bateson

Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others
first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous problems, for it is supposed to be carried out as if women did not have needs of their own, as if one could serve others without simultaneously attending to one's own interests and desires. Carried to its "perfection," it produces the martyr syndrome or the smothering wife and mother. — Jean Baker Miller

I was going crazy. My brain had just shit the bed on me. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I haven't ever seen 'Lost' ... I'm sorry. — Gillian Jacobs

This is not what it is like to be you,
I realized as a few of your magnificent clouds
flew over the rooftop.
It is just me thinking about being you.
And before I headed back down the hill,
I walked in a circle around your house,
making an invisible line
which you would have to cross before dark. — Billy Collins

He was said to have the body of a twenty-five year old, although no-one knew where he kept it.
The point was that everyone else had someone, even if in Nobby's case it was probably against their will. — Terry Pratchett

Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is only laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both unwholesome and stupefying. — Lord Chesterfield

She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse. — Colum McCann