Swilling Toasters Quotes & Sayings

In the U.S., PC-makers have no incentive to lower prices because it kills their profit margins. They keep adding new features like high-end retina displays and faster processors to justify their high prices. — Vivek Wadhwa

The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take. — Max Lucado

Unbounded awareness is the reservoir of possibilities. — Deepak Chopra

What humanity was about to lose, though, except for one tiny colony on Santa Rosalia, was what the trackless sea could never lose, so long as it was made of water, the ability to heal itself. — Kurt Vonnegut

We've been given a second chance. How many people can say that? — Mary J. Williams

We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves. — Vance Havner

Brighton Beach does not look, smell, or sound like Russia. It's a parody of Russia at best, something as different from the real thing as a picture of the Eiffel Tower. Yes, they sell Russian food on Brighton Beach, and Russian books and videos, and Russian clothes, and there are Russian restaurants and Russian nightclubs, and everybody speaks Russian, but the Russianness of the place is so concentrated that it feels ridiculously exaggerated. Everything Russian on Brighton Beach is too Russian, far more Russian than in real Russia. This is what happens all over Brooklyn. From the Scandinavians of Bay Ridge to the Chinese of Sunset Park, Brooklyn's immigrants go to ridiculous extremes to re-create their homelands only to end up with a vulgar pastiche. — Lara Vapnyar