Unconcealed Weapon Quotes & Sayings

Time can be dissected easily: an hour can be cut up in many ways. Fifteen minutes on this memo, a five-minute walk to another meeting, 30 minutes at that meeting and then 10 minutes debriefing. Oh, and maybe a quick phone call on the walk to that meeting. The busy are expert at dissection: that's how they make it all fit. — Sendhil Mullainathan

Let's be clear: I love singing at the Met. — Susanna Phillips

MANAGING STRICTLY BY NUMBERS IS LIKE PAINTING BY NUMBERS — Ben Horowitz

It's like training dogs. You want the dog to obey you, but you can't have real respect for a dog that always obeys you. You want a dog that occasionally goes over the wall or bites the postman without your permission; you want to be reminded that you command a subdued yet wild animal, not a crawler. A man should be strong enough to kill you with his bare hands. — Tibor Fischer

'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn. — Nolan Bushnell

The day may come when it takes some discernment to tell when someone loves you for you and when someone wants to stand near your fire. — Jeff Zentner

Can I love someone ... and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings. — Susan Sontag

Such colourless phrases as he achieved were produced with a difficulty, a hesitancy, simulated perhaps, but decidedly effective in their unconcealed ineptness. Like most successful men, he had turned this apparent disadvantage into a powerful weapon of offense and defense, in the way that the sledge-hammer impact of his comment left, by its banality, every other speaker at a standstill, giving him as a rule complete mastery of the conversational field. A vast capacity for imposing boredom, a sense of immensely powerful stuffiness, emanated from him, sapping every drop of vitality from weaker spirits.
"So you were at school together," he said slowly. — Anthony Powell

The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything. — John Millington Synge

Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings. Boswell described Johnson's mind when he described how he wrote, talked, ate, fidgeted and fumed. His description was, of course, incomplete, since there were notoriously some thoughts which Johnson kept carefully to himself and there must have been many dreams, daydreams and silent babblings which only Johnson could have recorded and only a James Joyce would wish him to have recorded. — Gilbert Ryle

The telecom industry pretends like it's not getting paid. — Chad Hurley

Reason should direct, and appetite obey. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am tremendously inspired by many women around the world who work under dire circumstances to make a difference for their families. — Joyce Banda