"Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology."

-- Alexander McCall Smith

#Pride Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Technology Quotes

“The Big Cactus... because if you come too close, you're gonna get stuck.”
“Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.”
“The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its laws, impersonal, its heart as of stone... . Yet on arrest, in the name of these laws, we die like dogs, neither executioner nor victim making a sound. Because he has to gasp for air all his life, panting for breath is the man of today's only way out.”
“I tried too much and too hard to get people to pay attention to what I was doing, and so paying less attention to what I actually wanted to do. It's something you see a lot with very young bands who are desperate to get a record deal so they're trying to sound like something else.”
“I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.”
“Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.”
“Not every story lends itself tonally to humor, so you have to navigate that territory properly. You can put a humorous spin on anything, really, if you know what you're doing, but it's not always desirable to have your reader laughing on every page.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I've always liked a formal layout and informal planting," she explained. "First get the structure right, like the bones in a face, then plant it like a crowded shoe. If you have a strong layout, you can let the plants seed themselves all over the place. Haphazard, unexpected... I like to be surprised by a garden.”

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