Drabs Quotes

#1. I could hardly wait for following chapters, which arrived in dribs and drabs, and I began to feel for all the world like the young T.B. Macaulay walking from London to meet the Cambridge coach bearing the next installment of Waverley novels.

Vernon Sproxton

#2. To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours.

Peter Drucker

#3. But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have [an] anatomist dissect me alive than to listen to the things the ladies say about us when they think they are alone.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#4. To Investigate in the superior worlds, the logic thinking and the exact concept are needed.

Samael Aun Weor

#5. Count not what is lost, but what is left.

D.B. Patterson

#6. If you prefer, I can acquire a windowless creeper van, and we can huddle in it and eat greasy take out.

Ilona Andrews

#7. The best businesses adopt a similar approach to Google. They are consistently looking for ways to improve what they do.

Jim Connolly

#8. Montessori called the child under six years old "a sensorial explorer" and based her educational approach for the child's early years upon the child's learning through the senses.

Paula Polk Lillard

#9. Walking along the avenues, we had one of the so-called intellectual conversations, which consist a great deal in quoting names of books and authors.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#10. A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

William G.T. Shedd

#11. Was I altering the 'space-time continuum' or whatever they called it in time travel movies, just by existing right now? Perhaps I'd accidentally kill a mosquito that might have given some famous person a disease that killed them?

J.R. Rain

#12. Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

Rabindranath Tagore

#13. On days like this you can see into the bluest depth of things, their previously unknown, astonishing equations - you see them in even the most familiar everyday thing.

Yevgeny Zamyatin