Simanco Quotes & Sayings

And the wind, the wind! The bare birches and cherry-trees, unable to endure its rude caresses, bowed low down to the ground and wailed: God, for what sin hast Thou bound us to the earth and will not let us go free? — Anton Chekhov

It's time to stop following your dreams and time to start chasing them! — Habeeb Akande

In America we have people from all kinds of backgrounds, all in a cluster, together, and consequently law has become very important in this country. Lawyers and law are what hold us together. There is no ethos. — Joseph Campbell

I guess it's just so I remember where I started. — Jodi Picoult

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt. — Edna O'Brien

I mean, he did say vagina, didn't he? And if he did, then how come it sounded so exciting? Vagina is pretty much the least exciting word in the world. It's something your doctor says to you shortly before he invades it with what looks like a weapon from our robotic future. — Charlotte Stein

'Paint only what you see,' his hero Millet had admonished.
'Imagination is a burden to a painter,' Auguste Renoir had told him. 'Painters are craftsmen, not storytellers. Paint what you see.'
Ah, but what they hadn't said, hadn't warned him about, was how much you could see. — Christopher Moore

Hold on." Beckett shot out a hand, shoved Ryder back. "Are you saying Mom and Willy B are ... "
"That's what I'm saying. And they have been for a couple years now."
"Fuck," Ryder muttered.
"Don't say fuck when he's telling us about Mom and Willy B. I don't want that verb and those names together in my head. — Nora Roberts

Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will. — George Herbert

Incrementalism can lead to local maxima. Be willing to explore to find the big wins before testing smaller changes and tweaks. Conversely, sometimes it's the incremental refinements that prove or disprove your hypotheses about what your users respond to. Use the insights from small tests to guide and inform your thinking about bigger changes. Consider entirely new alternative approaches to your principal business goals. Be willing to go beyond just testing "variations on a theme" - you might be surprised. If you're working on a major site redesign or overhaul, don't wait until the new design is live to A/B test it. A/B test the redesign itself. — Dan Siroker

Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it. — Tori Amos

Any utterance of more than trivial length has no one translation; all utterances have innumerably many acceptable translations — David Bellos

Cages, spanking benches, sawhorses, bondage tables. Scene after scene. Throaty moans, high screams, whining, whimpering, and groaning. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. All his cop instincts shouted for him to get his cuffs out and start arresting people. — Cherise Sinclair

He asked himself whether human society could have the right also to subject its members,on the one hand,to its crazy lack of foresight and,on the other,to its pitiless foresight,and to hold a poor man forever between a lack and an excess-lack of work and excess of punishment — Victor Hugo

History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles. — Edmund Burke