Dismembering Christmas Quotes

#1. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name. Alibaba is easy to spell, and people everywhere associate that with "Open, Sesame," the command that Ali Baba used to open doors to hidden treasures in One Thousand and One Nights.

Jack Ma

#2. What a magnificent accomplishment to be able to stay alive as an innocent lamb in the land of guilty wolves!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. Since when did the scent of a woman make him throw wood the instant it reached his nose? Since when did a woman's hair color make him feel as if he'd just freebased a bowl of Viagra?

Anonymous

#4. People do want to know, there is curiosity, it is a matter of public interest. That is not sufficient reason to disclose information. It is not sufficient that there be curiosity and interest that you want to disclose information.

Tharman Shanmugaratnam

#5. Honorable men refuse to wallow in the small and the bitter. Honorable men refuse to hate life because something once went wrong. Honorable men don't build monuments to their disappointments, nor do they let others brand them and curse them to their destruction. Honorable

Stephen Mansfield

#6. When you do something you love, you have a passion for it. It comes naturally. Staying true to yourself and doing what you love keeps you going ... everything else falls into place.

Christian Louboutin

#7. I saw right through that rapturous smile. He was a cruel, sadistic son of a bitch.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#8. I have a mantra that kind of explains my feelings on this subject, which is, "The past is the present is the future." When you're recording something, you're making something that will exist in the future.

Will Oldham

#9. Non omnis moriar, said Horace's Odes - I shall not wholly die. Yes, and he was right. As long as people remembered, then death was not complete. Only if there were nobody at all left to remember would death be complete.

Alexander McCall Smith

#10. After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.

Fay Godwin

#11. The reflected world is the conquest of calm

Gaston Bachelard