Siphons Quotes

#1. The manufacturer who finds himself up the creek is the short-sighted opportunist who siphons off all his advertising dollars for short-term promotions.

David Ogilvy

#2. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one's mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one's leisure. It becomes easier to spot patterns and links, you understand, when they are in this form.

J.K. Rowling

#3. Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.

Gary Wolf

#4. They please the world most, who please Christ least.

St. Jerome

#5. Be happy she's crying," he said. "That's when you know they still feel something for you. The time when they look at you with dry eyes is when you've lost them.

Jessica Clare

#6. Man and his affairs, church and state and school, trade and commerce, and manufactures and agriculture even politics, the most alarming of them all - I am pleased to see how little space they occupy in the landscape.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. I never pay attention, to no numbers, no views, comments ... I just try to keep on going, keep on living my life so I can continue to put out music that's real.

Kirko Bangz

#8. I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.

James Russell Lowell

#9. It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

James Taylor

#10. Anyone who tells you her life is like a book has either been reading some bad books or is not being straight with you or herself about her life.

M.J. Andersen

#11. A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author ... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.

Herb Caen

#12. So this little boy was
I became her confidant a little too early, I think. It didn't seem to warp me exactly, but it left me with a little too much knowledge at an early age. [p. 143]

Mary Catherine Bateson

#13. Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#14. How many girls has he slept with?" "It's probably up to eighty now," I said. "But in his case, the higher the numbers go, the less each individual act seems to mean. Which is what I think he's trying to accomplish.

Haruki Murakami