Dicken Quotes

#1. A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of the 'real' economy has become increasingly dwarfed by speculative activity.

Peter Dicken

#2. Every production network has spatiality - the particular geographical configuration and extent of its component elements and the links between them.

Peter Dicken

#3. Innovation - the heart of technological change - is fundamentally a learning process.

Peter Dicken

#4. The primary driver of final consumer demand is, of course, the level of disposable income.

Peter Dicken

#5. Isn't the essential pillar of Catholicism papal infallibility? Well, then how can the church ever change its mind about anything unless God gets confused one day? Not all religions claim the direct authority of God speaking to their leader. You know, I'm an atheist, but I'm a Puritan atheist.

Dave Foley

#6. The eye's perception of texture is pale compared to the lips', and I didn't know what velvety was until I knew it with my lips. Oh, kissing. Oh, violin boy.

Laini Taylor

#7. Without the parallel development of systems of monetary - and credit-based exchange there could have been no development of economies beyond the most primitive organizational forms and the most geographically restricted sales.

Peter Dicken

#8. Love can be yours if you really believe in your heart that it is out there for you somewhere.

Steve Hudson

#9. More broadly, strategic alliances are more difficult to manage and coordinate than single ventures; the potential for misunderstanding and disagreement, particularly between partners from different cultures, is great. Certainly many such alliances are short lived.

Peter Dicken

#10. It is indeed paradoxical that an industry which epitomizes all that is new and up-to-date at the same time harbours some of the oldest and least desirable attributes of work in manufacturing industry.

Peter Dicken

#11. Transnational corporate networks, and their resulting spatial patterns, are always in a continuous state of flux. At any one time, some parts may be growing rapidly, others may be stagnating, others may be in steep decline.

Peter Dicken

#12. I've never heard anybody in my family say anything but good things about Rick Perry.

Jeb Bush

#13. Jesus is persecuted in every injured saint, and He is mighty to avenge His beloved ones.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#14. One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner. It was a poisonous book.

Oscar Wilde

#15. One of the most striking developments has been the rise, fall and rise again of the semiconductor industry of the United States, which is, once again, the dominant player in the most advanced semiconductor product-markets.

Peter Dicken

#16. Reality is far more complex and messy than many of the grander themes and explanations would have us believe.

Peter Dicken

#17. The internationalization of economic activity and its major vehicle, the TNC, can be regarded simply as being part of the normal expansive process of capitalist development.

Peter Dicken

#18. With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch.

Peter Gay

#19. They walked through the hallways of the stadium, Dowling taking him on a tour of every locker room in the building.

John Feinstein

#20. It remains to be seen, for example whether China can continue to develop as a market economy while still retaining an authoritarian communist political system.

Peter Dicken

#21. They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!

Tennessee Williams

#22. Italians had a "national peculiarity" to use distinctive hand gestures and body language when they spoke: a resource that was, he believed, obvious to an Italian like Leonardo when he came to paint The Last Supper.

Ross King

#23. Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library.

Bob Hartley

#24. Geographically, the global economy is now multi-polar , as new centres of production have emerged in parts of what had been, historically, the periphery of the world economy. The world is now more accurately described as a 'mosaic of unevenness in a continual state of flux'.

Peter Dicken