"I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write."

-- Derek Bok

#Writing Quotes #College Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.”
“I think Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker but he was just so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight ... Rush Limbaugh - I hope the country fails. I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs.”
“There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.”
“I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.”
“If you don’t know how to fix it, please, stop breaking it.”

Source : Speech at U.N. Conference on Environment and Development, delivered day Month 1992, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“In my youth I loved climbing and scrambling up rocks and mountains: now I seldom intrude on the dweller of a second story, and my greatest enemy or friend may avoid me altogether on the third; so humbled is the aspiring spirit of my youth.”

Source : Edward John Trelawny (1835). “Adventures of a Younger Son”, p.471
“Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.”
“Television isn't my career. Business is.”

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