Net Quotes

565 quotes by 448 authors

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view… — Russell Banks
SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more… — Ambrose Bierce
The current anger at the march of turbines and pylons across the hills of Britain is not from nimbys. Government money has lubricated most backyard… — Simon Jenkins
Fo lo, the gentil kind of the lioun! For when a flye offendeth him or byteth, He with his tayl awey the flye smyteth Al… — Geoffrey Chaucer
And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been destroyed. And I… — Yann Martel
We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare. — Rand Paul
Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is too powerful, and… — Neal Stephenson
Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish. — Muhammad Ali
The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents? — Neal A. Maxwell
That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong… — Peter Heller
One man is proud when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another… — Marcus Aurelius
It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so on.… — Sebastian Faulks
Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying… — Lisa See
A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution. — Ari Fleischer
A strip club is one of the few places where two groups voluntarily come together who have such precipitous contrasts in net worth and familiarity… — Tim Dorsey
I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and… — Shirley Bassey
That books, a commodity little changed since Caxton's day, should have turned out to be the trailblazers of retailing on the internet is one of… — Bryan Appleyard
I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just… — Anton Corbijn
I always think I should try to get to bed early, but then I can't stop myself from watching telly and fiddling around on the… — Jenson Button
War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net… — H. L. Mencken

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