Chattering Classes Quotes

#1. A deep river of must-have school mania runs through the chattering classes. There is, of course, the parental adrenaline rush at suburban cocktail parties that comes from announcing one's son or daughter as an Ivy Leaguer.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#2. Motivation doesn't come from empty words, because words fade over time. If persistance and perservance is what you live then what motivation do you need? Your dreams can turn into goals and your goals can turn into a reality. You are all the motivation you need to succeed.

Gabriel Mason

#3. Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to this life. It's just too much of a temptation for fate to split you right up the middle before you've made up your mind which way to go.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.

Tim Ferriss

#5. The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

Alan Turing

#6. A photograph is a click away. A good photograph is a hundred clicks away and a better one, a thousand clicks away

Kowtham Kumar K

#7. You're manic-depressive and you're manic-depressive too and you, you're definitely manic-depressive, girl. And you over there in the corner, you're just plain fucking depressive.

Colum McCann

#8. Don't take anything from me because I'll track it down.

Ursula Andress

#9. Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.

Pierre Trudeau

#10. She is so distinct to me, it's as though I had run my hands all over her.

Franz Kafka