Townrow Department Quotes & Sayings

Meg McCaffrey, a girl of few words and much belching. — Rick Riordan

A meaningful life is the life full of meaningful relationships. Create yours. — Utpal Vaishnav

A lot of men are wankers cause they don't mind bad sex, but for a woman bad sex is far worse than no sex at all. — Irvine Welsh

If the sale of flesh could be made as easily as the sale of spiritual exemption, the prescience of a dedicated businessman might be well preserved. — Michelle Franklin

We are out-of-the-gates strong in fiscal 2015. We grew revenue 8% in the first quarter and exceeded our QuickBooks Online subscriber and our company financial targets. — Brad D. Smith

War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism. — Northrop Frye

When all is said and done, what must be remembered is a newspaper is a business. It used to be a fabulous business that made extraordinary margins. It's now a very good business with appropriate margins. — Sam Zell

From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence
in Gibbon's polyphonic counterpoint and Guedalla's command of the subjunctive, in Mailer's hyperbole and Dillard's similes, in Twain's invectives and burlesques with which he set the torch of his ferocious wit to the hospitality tents of the world's colossal humbug ... I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.
- from Harper's Notebook, November 2010 — Lewis H. Lapham

In a world divided by chimpophiles and bonobophiles, we all had a good laugh when Stephen peeled his banana. (62) — Frans De Waal

The best way to motivate other people to help YOU fulfil your goals is to help them fulfil THEIR goals — Deepak Chopra

Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her. — Lao-Tzu

There is ecstasy in paying attention. — Anne Lamott

It will be the mother of all telescopes, and you can bet it will do for astronomy what genome sequencing is doing for biology. The clumsy, if utilitarian, name of this mirrored monster is Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, or LSST. You can't use it yet, but a peak in the Chilean Andes has been decapitated to provide a level spot for placement. — Seth Shostak

It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon