Borg Quote by Clive James Download Open image “Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.” — Clive James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Borg Dull Rugged Tennis Volvo
I don't see how that is any of your business." Stupid, shiny Volvo owner. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
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They're two really classy brands - the same way you find a Mercedes car. You know you're always going to get something great, something,… — George Russell Copy Share Image
A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
I think what IBM is excellent at is using their sales and marketing infrastructure to convince people who have asymmetrically less knowledge to pay… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
“There are many potential explanations for the less-than-robust performance, but IBM’s current strategy suggests that one component at least is a challenge to the traditional shrink-wrapped software business. As much as any software provider in the industry, IBM’s software business was optimized and built for a traditional enterprise procurement model. This typically involves lengthy evaluations of software, commonly referred to… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share
A lot of people who can afford a vehicle are deciding against owning one. They just need access to transport. So, our job is… — Anand Mahindra Copy Share Image
My wife spoke perfect Italian and she was very beautiful and very suave Italian men were crowding around her, talking all the time and… — Clive James Copy Share Image
The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London… — Clive James Copy Share Image
In London there was no home cooking worthy of the name. When you were in funds you ate out. But only the people whose… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits. — Clive James Copy Share Image
I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it… — Clive James Copy Share Image
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones. — Clive James Copy Share Image
“Too many of my friends are dead, and others wrecked By various diseases of the intellect Or failing body. How am I still upright?… — clive james Copy Share Image
In 1992, one of my dearest friends, Anita Borg, came to me with an idea: a conference featuring women Computer Scientists. The conference would… — Telle Whitney Copy Share Image
Tennis legend Bjorn Borg appeared in a Swedish TV ad urging Swedes to have more sex to solve the country's falling birth rate. America… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
Borg's won Wimbledon four straight times and out there he has just lost an 18-16 tie breaker. You'd think maybe once he'd let up… — John McEnroe Copy Share Image
Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess. — Clive James Copy Share Image
The answer is for all of us to create our own systems, our own ideas, because vibrant independent ideas will trump this corporate, plastic… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
The way I look at the top five, (Rod) Laver, (Roger) Federer, myself, Borg and (Ivan) Lendl. I think those five guys dominated their… — Pete Sampras Copy Share Image
Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players. — Richard Krajicek Copy Share Image
I'm always on the look out for 'the good image'. I'm like The Borg (you know, Star Trek) inasmuch as I assimilate everything -… — Horace Panter Copy Share Image
As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried… — Sachin Tendulkar Copy Share Image
Every procedure for getting a cat to take a pill works fine - once. Like the Borg, they learn. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
