Omnium Gatherum Quotes

#1. The computer industry is creatively bankrupt.

Jonathan Ive

#2. I like to enjoy life, I like to engage in life, so I would say I'm a yes man.

Jim Carrey

#3. I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

Robert Fripp

#4. Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment ... In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.

Milton Friedman

#5. Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

Connie Willis

#6. Verily, I constantly renew my Islam until this very day, as up to now, I do not consider myself to have ever been a good Muslim.

Ibn Taymiyyah

#7. Of all my father's teachings, the most enduring was the one about the true measure of a man. That true measure was how well he provided for his children, and it stuck with me as if it were etched in my brain.

Sidney Poitier

#8. Mexico cannot put up with this scenario of death and kidnapping.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#9. The past became a long, razor-sharp skewer that stabbed right through his heart.

Haruki Murakami

#10. I think writing is better in odd or terrible places. It makes the magic all the more wonderful, because you're getting lost in a beautiful world.

Megan Linski

#11. In modern societies, some members of ethnic minority groups do not want to feel compelled to heed the voices of their communities when participating as citizens.

Michael Kenny

#12. Our religious needs are our deepest needs. There is no peace till they are satisfied and contented. The attempt to stifle them is in vain. If their cry be drowned by the noise of the world, they do not cease to exist. They must be answered.

Isaac Hecker