Technical Symposium Quotes & Sayings

That beautiful girl, she was a universe, bearer of these words that rang like gongs, that tumbled like flutes made of human bones. — Janet Fitch

The inhabitants of England in the age of Chaucer commonly used an expression, to be in hide and hair, meaning to be lost or beyond discovery. But then it disappears from the written record for four hundred years before resurfacing, suddenly and unexpectedly, in America in 1857 as neither hide nor hair. It is dearly unlikely that the phrase went into a linguistic coma for four centuries. So who was quietly preserving it for four hundred years, and why did it so abruptly return to prominence in the sixth decade of the nineteenth century in a country two thousand miles away? — Bill Bryson

Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas. — Jacky Ickx

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something. — George Bernard Shaw

A writer walks in nature to wonder. — Lailah Gifty Akita

And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. — Anonymous

Nobody said it was going to be easy.
-Pontius Joseph — Pontius Joseph

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic — Salvador Dali

The President sucked in his breath sharply. He also sucked in a big fly that happened to be passing at the time. He choked. — Roald Dahl

The lessons she'd been forced to learn were dry spare things, the facts without the sense of them, given in the simplest of language, as if words might disguise the truth or (worse) bring it to life. — Robin McKinley

Simplicity means to choose ways of living that touch the Earth more lightly and that reduce our ecological footprint. — Duane Elgin

Who was the real Hitchcock? I interviewed him once and haven't a clue. — Roger Ebert

I think one day I can make a book about coffee shops in Hong Kong. I spent almost most of my time in coffee shops, in different coffee shops. — Wong Kar-Wai