Amazon Quotes - Page 6

• The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a purely capricious god. It's an intelligence you can't understand, so you can't trust it." -Amazon.com interview

  China Mieville

  Interviews, Idiot, Lovecraft

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• He looked as if he'd stepped straight off the cover of one of those romance novels she ordered from Amazon.com so she didn't have to be embarassed by some supercilious male clerk in the bookstore.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Romance, Clerks, Males

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• She was plump, with dyed red hair and a face so caked with cosmetics that the floor of the Amazon jungle probably saw more natural light.

  John Connolly

  Light, Hair, Cosmetics

  John Connolly (2015). “Every Dead Thing: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• I had to wait for someone special. Someone who would make my heart feel as if it's been trampled by elephants, thrown into the amazon, and eaten by piranhas.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Heart, Elephants, Waiting

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.165, Macmillan

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• Eeek,” Shane said. Nothing. Right, Amazon princess, I got the point.

  Rachel Caine

  Princess, Shane, Said

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Last Breath”, p.9, Allison & Busby

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• HAZEL: "THERE," she said.The official building on their left had a single word etched on the glass doors: AMAZON. "oh," Frank said."Uh, no, Hazel. That's a modern thing. They're a company, Right? they sell stuff on the internet. They're not actually Amazons." "Unless..." Percy walked through the doors.

  Rick Riordan

  Glasses, Doors, Stuff

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• We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a human cardiovascular system, look at corals or trees and look at our lungs, you literally cannot tell the difference. They’re the same. So when we destroy our environment, we’re effectively destroying ourselves.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Rivers, Differences, Tree

  FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Dec 26, 2012

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• One of the things that I hope will distinguish Amazon.com is that we continue to be a company that defies easy analogy. This requires a lot of innovation, and innovation requires a lot of random walk.

  Jeff Bezos

  Innovation, Analogies, Easy

  "The inner Bezos" by Chip Bayers, www.wired.com. March 01, 1999.

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• Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon

  Marc Andreessen

  Suicide, Example, Borders

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• I explained to Amazon that I don't like outlining or projecting what something's going to be. I like to allow a story to arise as I'm writing scripts. I find it horrible when I try to think of something for the plot without really being on the ground and seeing where it goes. I was really resistant to do the mini-bible. So I gave them something, but I really didn't want to do it that way.

  Whit Stillman

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the reasons why I say we all need to work together to save the Congo forest, because if we don't save the Congo forest, the Amazon forest and the southeast Asia forest, if those forests release the carbon they are trapping at the moment, much of what you will be doing in the North will be negated by the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere.

  Wangari Maathai

  Atmosphere, Together, Asia

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• (in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?) Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book. A computer does not smell. There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like ancient Egypt. A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it. You put it in your pocket and you walk with it. And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.

  Ray Bradbury

  Sorry, Book, Thinking

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• As long as we have Netfix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration.

  Tim Gunn

  Inspiration, Long, Bookstores

  Tim Gunn (2010). “Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work”, Simon and Schuster

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• You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate.... The real story is that over time the rate has stayed just the same. Year after year, decade after decade, we have failed to stop or really even decrease deforestation.

  Patrick Symmes

  Real, Failure, Science

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• Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.

  Vincent Canby

  Spring, Sunset, Paris

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• The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead; ask about the scale of their dreams - their Apple-, Google-, Amazon-scale dreams - how they measure their progress toward those dreams, and what resources they need to make them come true, regardless of what the overhead is.

  Dan Pallotta

  Dream, Apples, Google

  "Do We Have The Wrong Idea About Charity?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 17, 2013.

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• The fact is, when you look at the best teams—like the ones that existed at Toyota or 3M when Takeuchi or Nonaka wrote their paper, or the ones at Google or Salesforce.com or Amazon today—there isn’t this separation of roles.

  Jeff Sutherland

  Team, Google, Roles

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• The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans.

  Ciro Guerra

  Stories, Knows, Has Beens

  "'Serpent' Film Explores, Revives Lost Cultural Knowledge For Colombians". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. February 21, 2016.

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• I have a scar on my forehead and the bangs were an attempt to cover that. Life sort of pushed a hair change on me, which has actually been really fun to play with. It does add a little bit of maintenance, but I have a teeny-tiny flat iron that I bought on Amazon for $20 and that has been my lifesaver. Even if all I do to get out the door is flat iron my bangs, I feel like I'm good to go.

  Danielle Panabaker

  Fun, Hair, Doors

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The handwritten pages make for fun giveaways. If someone reviews one of my books online, like on Amazon or Goodreads, they can notify me through my web site, and I'll send them an original page. They can see my creative process in all its scribbly glory.

  Brian Pinkerton

  Fun, Book, Creative

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Obviously there's Netflix, iTunes, and Amazon and all these other outlets. Fake It So Real is now on Fandor, and I think people have actually seen it there, which is fine.

  Robert Greene

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Performance as Documentary: An Interview with Robert Greene (Web Exclusive)". Interview with Erik Luers, www.cineaste.com.

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• Amazon, being a provider - not just on the playing field - is, of course, opening up a whole new set of possibilities. At the same time, Amazon also understands platforms. For them, theatrical is an extremely important event. I also believe it's the best way of seeing a movie.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Believe, Opening Up, Important Events

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• The digital revolution is forever. They put importance on that option as well. With Amazon, you're getting the best of both worlds, with a whole new playing field.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Digital Revolution, Forever, Fields

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I feel Amazon is really bringing films into the future. So for me it was the best of both worlds.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  World, Film, Feels

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• I love that Amazon has this incredibly unique, diplomatic process where people's voices are heard, and we're using this great interconnectedness we have, via the internet, to weigh in and to have a say in what we want to see and what we don't.

  Matt Bomer

  Unique, Voice, People

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

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