Tanja Djelevic Quotes & Sayings

Despotism alone can provide that atmosphere of secrecy which favors crooked dealing and enables the freebooters of finance to make illicit fortunes. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Don't fail me. (Stryker)
You don't fail me. (Jericho)
So do we let you two lock horns and butt each other off the mountaintop now? (Tory) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation. — Tom Peters

I'm a fetishist. I make films based on what I would like to see. — Nicolas Winding Refn

Even when I was happy, I felt like I was always looking for the edges on life. The seams. I was so perfectly born to die. — Maggie Stiefvater

One of the most remarkable of all ornithological discoveries was the realisation that birds in temperate regions undergo enormous seasonal changes in their internal organs...Perhaps the most far-reaching discovery relating to these changes was the finding in the 1970s that parts of the brain also varied in size across the year...The centres in the avian brain that control the acquisition and delivery of song in male birds shrink at the end of the breeding season and grow again in the following year. — Tim Birkhead

Please do not devour me, I wish to remain Boo Radley. — Angela Marie Suor

She could see it surprised him, too, sometimes. He told her once when there was a storm a bird had flown into the house. He'd never seen one like it. The wind must have carried it in from some far-off place. He opened all the doors and windows, but it was so desperate to escape that for a while it couldn't find a way out. "It left a blessing in the house," he said. "The wildness of it. Bringing the wind inside. — Marilynne Robinson

It is better to know something about everything then everything about something — Blaise Pascal

While twentieth-century physicists were not able to identify any convincing mathematical constants underlying the fine structure, partly because such thinking has normally not been encouraged, a revolutionary suggestion was recently made by the Czech physicist Raji Heyrovska, who deduced that the fine structure constant, ...really is defined by the [golden] ratio .... — Carl Johan Calleman

Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn't it? — Patrick Swayze

If these yarns were trash - and millions of parents must have regarded them as such - then they were the best of all kinds of trash. They were trash for connoisseurs of trash. Trash for people who understood just how good trash could really be. — Don Hutchison