Mental Indigestion Quotes

#1. I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear.

Chip Conley

#2. Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

John Maeda

#3. Mathematicians need proofs to keep them honest. All technical areas of human activity need reality checks. It is not enough to believe that something works, that it is a good way to proceed, or even that it is true. We need to know why it's true. Otherwise, we won't know anything at all.

Ian Stewart

#4. The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worst part of oneself.

Patrick McGoohan

#5. Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#6. We all live like cockroaches in the crevices of our imagination.

Raymond Federman

#7. The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

Giacomo Leopardi

#8. Because I've overcome the vanity and pride of being different. I've understood that they are a pitiful defense against being different. Because I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes, but I'm not the axis of those changes.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#9. Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

Etty Hillesum

#10. If I hadn't been a woman, I'd have been a drag queen

Dolly Parton

#11. If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.

Madeleine L'Engle

#12. Love is itself an expression of strength.

Elizabeth Lowell

#13. As many times as I've seen 'The Merchant of Venice,' I always take Shylock's side. For all the hatred that guy is shown, he has a reason to hate in return. He's treated cruelly. And it's tragic that he learns to be intolerant because of what others do to him.

John Irving

#14. Because it's all about the journey...

Selena Fulton

#15. Globalised manufacturing and procurement mean that a lot of high-polluting, heavy duty jobs are transferred to China. We will ask major companies, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft and IBM to put pressure on their Chinese suppliers.

Ma Jun