Obelisks Quotes

#1. Now Sally plunged her abruptly into the full strangeness of this place, with its rot and randomness rooting towers taller than any in Tokyo, corporate obelisks that pierced the sooty lacework of overlapping domes.

William Gibson

#2. Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

Dan Brown

#3. We have our arts, the ancients had theirs ... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

Voltaire

#4. To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accomodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.

Ellen Ullman

#5. I've been trying to watch my weight a bit, but when I come to Las Vegas, all bets are off. I get enough healthy food in L.A. where the food is the size of a quarter and costs $40 - when I'm in Vegas, I want a steak!

Billy Gardell

#6. Change the world...!?
You think a little know-nothing brat like you has the right to say that!?

Yukito Kishiro

#7. I love market research because you really have an idea of what your consumers are looking for.

Aerin Lauder

#8. There is enough blessings for everyone.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. In his talk, Suzuki Roshi says that meditation and the whole process of finding your own true nature is one continuous mistake, and that rather than that being a reason for depression or discouragement, it's actually the motivation.

Pema Chodron