Quotes About Bean Counters

#1. The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

Alan Kay

#2. Good stories are not written by people who live in a city of dirty strip malls, forced to listen to the machinated opinions of lawyers, bean counters and statisticians ... Good stories strong enough to love are created by those brave enough to live.

Spencer Antle

#3. Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in white suits, the literary bean-counters, the prose police.

Peter Selgin

#4. There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.

Pierce Brosnan

#5. You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.

Colin Quinn

#6. America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.

Maurice Saatchi

#7. Be the change you seek.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. Enterprises are just starting to adopt and integrate the iPad into their networks, but this is accelerating, and that's an opportunity for Infosys.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

#9. You have cast out the wonder of creation - man and woman - and you have put money in its place. This is a basic terrorism against all of humanity! Think about it!

Pope Francis

#10. There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and is not habit bound.

Brooks Atkinson

#11. Song girls have an unspoken pact: to make life as easy as possible for Daddy.

Jenny Han

#12. We can be sure, he [Kant] says, that anything we shall ever experience must show the characteristics affirmed of it in our a priori knowledge, because these characteristics are due to our own nature, and therefore nothing can ever come into our experience without acquiring these characteristics.

Bertrand Russell

#13. The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

George Lakoff

#14. Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one triplet for each amino acid.

Francis Crick

#15. I feel like women are asked their age more than men.

Kristen Wiig

#16. If people enjoy my profile from the privacy of their own home, that's entirely up to you.

Peter Capaldi

#17. No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

Robert Byrne

#18. God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

Evelyn Underhill

#19. I don't quite know what an auteur is.

Peter Jackson

#20. I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.

Bob Brown