Voiceband Quotes & Sayings

That wouldn't be a bad way to die...giving off light for millions of years after you're gone. — Jeff Zentner

Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb. — Patricia Wentworth

I'm so tired, Katniss. — Suzanne Collins

You would rather pay $50 a month for a cable modem than a free voiceband modem because of the attractiveness of that broadband connection. — Henry Samueli

Did I love them because they were the only boys in my life who consistently told me that I was beautiful? Probably. I loved The Ruperts for who they were, sure, but I mostly loved them for how they made me feel. Which was happy. The Ruperts made me happy. The simplest thing to be in the world. And the hardest. — Goldy Moldavsky

Little did I realize that my desire to add value to others would be the thing that added value to me! — John C. Maxwell

I have a pretty normal office day. I get to work at 10 in the morning and leave at eight or nine. — Pedro Winter

I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party in an endangered, rambling house, the feuding family, the rich suitor, the disruptive visitors. The novel has all of those delightful things, but it also defied every one of my expectations. I saw none of it coming. I read it in one breathless sitting, and finished wanting to give it to everyone I know. — Maile Meloy

Once you used a computer with a broadband connection, you knew you would never be able go back to the old voiceband modem connection - even if it was free. — Henry Samueli

Ah, dear Reader, is there a married man living who hasn't purged his drawers and closets of premarital memorabilia, only to have one more incriminating relic from yester-life rear its lovely head? Kristy contends that old flames never die, not completely. They smolder for years in hidden places. They flare up again just when you think you're over them. They can burn you if you don't deal with them. Such is the price I've had to pay for not rooting out the evidence of my life B.C. (Before Contentment). Or, perhaps, for having planted it too well.
But that, you see, is no longer an issue. Shall I tell you the crux of this argument? A man with a past can be forgiven. A man without one cannot be trusted. If there were no pictures in my drawer for Kirsty to uncover, I would have had to produce some. — Ted Gargiulo

I don't want to play myself up as a hero, because it would make me unbelievable. I'd rather settle for people thinking that I'm a bum, but digging my stories, than liking me and not being able to believe in my stories. That's one reason I've been hard on myself, because I want my stuff to be believable. — Harvey Pekar

Enforced maternity brings into the world wretched infants, whom their parents will be unable to support and who will become the victims of public care or 'child martyrs'. It must be pointed out that our society, so concerned to defend the rights of the embryo, shows no interest in the children once they are born; it prosecutes the abortionists instead of undertaking to reform that scandalous institution known as 'public assistance'; those responsible for entrusting the children to their torturers are allowed to go free; society closes its eyes to the frightful tyranny of brutes in children's asylums and private foster homes. — Simone De Beauvoir

Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you. — Douglas Coupland

Residents tended to consider it a God-given right to gossip and nose into people's business, and no one was exempt.

-Lucky Harbor — Jill Shalvis

I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government. — Lloyd Bentsen