quotes about Good Neighbor

“The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to science”

“The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.”

“I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught.”

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”

Source : Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1835, Delphi Classics

“When you're running and you are there, there's a little person that talks to you and that little person says “Oh, I'm tired”, “My lounge's about to pop”, “I'm so hurt”, “I'm so tired”, “There's no way I can possibly continue”. And you wanna quit. Right? That person, if you learn how to defeat that person when you're running you will learn how to not quit when things get hard in your life.”

“I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.”

“Lucille Ball hates the color of her hair, too, and says `I should wear a sign on my chest saying I hate it, but Technicolor demands it.'”

“The war on drugs has been a social and political failure. We need to encourage sport and stop encouraging drugs.”

“Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me - When memory of the body awakens, and old desire again runs through the blood; when the lips and skin remember, and the hands feel as if they touch again.”

Source : Constantine P. Cavafy, “Return”

“The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom - voluntary from the juridical point of view but compulsory in the economic sense - broken up by momentarily brief interludes of freedom accompanied by starvation; in other words, it is real slavery.”