Ship Shape Quotes

#1. I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

#2. Experiences of the first order, of the first rank, are not realized through the eye.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#3. Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget.

Arthur Laurents

#4. As ever, it was fifty percent fashion show, forty percent club, ten percent sex party, and one hundred percent annoying.

Alexis Hall

#5. If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.

Alex Garland

#6. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.

Tony Blair

#7. If there's one thing you learn by working on a lot of different Web sites, it's that almost any design idea
no matter how appallingly bad
can be made usable in the right circumstances, with enough effort.

Steve Krug

#8. Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.

Marilyn Monroe

#9. An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

Malcolm Gladwell

#10. Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.

Randall Kennedy

#11. The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.

Victor Cousin

#12. Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.

Asa Gray