Bruntons Barracks Quotes

#1. Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses ... that's also the way you win over constituency.

Johnny Isakson

#2. What was this place? - this place that to his senses seemed subtly quivering like a thing alive?

H.G.Wells

#3. Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

Nicholas Negroponte

#4. A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

Richard Eyre

#5. If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

Derrick Jensen

#6. I remember him standing under a streetlamp.
'Just as we passed that other lamp I was going to tell you a further thing, Sal, but now I am parenthetically continuing with a new thought and by the time we reach the next I'll return to the original subject, agreed?'
I certainly agreed.

Jack Kerouac

#7. The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones