"When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value ."

-- Sun Bin

#Elements Quotes #Tactics Quotes #Surprise Quotes

“It's not nice going into the supermarket and the woman at the till is thinking: 'Dodgy keeper'.”
“It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.”

Source : "I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language" by John Humphrys, www.dailymail.co.uk. September 24, 2007.
“They don't allow you to go any further unless you can do this bomb suit training, because it puts such a mental strain on your spirit. It dumbs you down about 25 to 30 IQ points. You start to hallucinate in the heat inside the suit after 20-30 minutes. So you try not to stay in it too dang long. So the preparation for that - it's either you have it, or you do not.”
“When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space.”

Source : "Braque". Book by Edwin Mullins, Thames and Hudson, p. 55, 1968.
“Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.”
“What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?”
“Dr. Lecter would have more sustenance on the spacecraft from Alien because there are more people to eat. I think he'd get hungry after a while in the Overlook - I can't imagine him eating canned food.”
“In great quantity, madame. In great quantity.”

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