Botezatu Alexandru Quotes

#1. He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away Paradise. Therefore in all temptations let us consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.

Richard Sibbes

#3. If you are a programmer working in 2006 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for six months in a submarine.

Joel Spolsky

#4. On 'Stranger Than Fiction,' the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.

Marc Forster

#5. The fumes of wine fermented in my head; it was one of those moments of intoxication when all that ones sees and hears, speaks to one of the adored ... One would willingly embrace all who smile, and one feels that he is brother of all who live.

Alfred De Musset

#6. In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

Ben Bradlee

#7. While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.

Anthony Holden

#8. They were willing to send men and women to death to avoid being called losers.

Steve Sheinkin

#9. All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#10. Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

John Le Carre

#11. But happiness is no respecter of persons.

Stephen Fry

#12. To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Ogden Nash

#13. I think nobody is in a position to react to these big macro-issues. Where is the dollar going to be or what is G.D.P. growth going to be in China? For every smart person on one side of the question, there is another smart person on the other side.

David F. Swensen

#14. Let me tell you something. A man ain't a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can't chop down because they're inside.

Toni Morrison