Public Notices Quotes

#1. One useful trick, I discovered, is to avoid listening to the question of the interviewer, and answer with whatever I have been thinking about recently. Remarkably, neither the interviewers nor the public notices the absence of correlation between question and answer.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. What's missing is not money, but a national sense of urgency.

Barack Obama

#3. My suitcase must absolutely contain my iPod.

Alexander Ludwig

#4. If I could bleed, or sleep!
If my mouth could marry a hurt like that!

Sylvia Plath

#5. Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.

Nick Saban

#6. Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

Thom Mayne

#7. You can cry in public as long as you don not sob. Tears are transparent. If you're walking fast, if the sun's too strong, no one notices. Sobs intrude. They push their way into people's consciousness. They feel duty-bound to ask what has happened.

Jerry Pinto

#8. It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.

Alan Bennett

#9. Life is the risk we cannot refuse.

Mason Cooley