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  • Arthur Erickson Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson An enterprise employing more than 1000 people becomes a self-perpetuating empire, creating so much internal work that it no longer needs any contact with the outside world.
    Management Science Journal, October 1960
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Susan Sontag The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Mark Twain It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Britt Ekland Little bitty bags are completely impractical - I like big slouchy bags because they have to be comfortable for my lovely wee Chihuahua Tequila, who comes everywhere with me. I'm devoted to him, now my kids have long since flown the nest.
    Britt Ekland
    Swedish actress and singer (1942 - )
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  • Bette Midler Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Antoine Rivarol Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Bill Walton A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Patricia Meyer Spacks The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
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  • Bill Dedman Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They built anticipating a major quake.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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