Unix Shell Script Quotes & Sayings

What's the use of being legible, when nothing inspires you to take notice of it? — Wolfgang Weingart

In the first act get your principal character up a tree; in the second act, throw stones at him; in the third, get him down gracefully. — Anonymous

Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us. — Rainer Maria Rilke

In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance. — Mason Cooley

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes. — George Bernard Shaw

In the glittering light I got drunk and reeled through
the rooms,
And cried, "Cartagena! swamp of unholy loves!"
And wept for the Indian whores who were younger than me,
and I was eighteen,
And splashed after the crew down the streets wearing
sandals bought at a stall
And got back to the ship, dawn came,
we were far out at sea. — Gary Snyder

I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them. — Charles Lindbergh

Every book in the 'Dreams' cycle dramatizes a particular epoch in the ongoing cultural collision between North America's native peoples and its European colonizers. — Tom Bissell

That the crowd always likes a holiday is a common saying, but when the whole year becomes one long holiday, and nobody has time for attending to his business, and pleasure becomes compulsory, then it is a different matter. — Robert Graves

You're asking somebody who has a wife and is really happily married, 'So, what's your next wife going to be like?' And I'm like, 'What?' — Travis Kalanick