Files Quotes - Page 12

• I think if you put something in a file that says "war poems" or "love poems" that you already restrict the way in which the poem might move.

  Rita Dove

  War, Moving, Thinking

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

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• When I first moved to Los Angeles I came down there on a wing and a prayer in a way. I had about six weeks worth of money to make it there and that was just from doing a couple of episodes of the X-Files just to finance that trip. I got there and it is either you got to hit it or you got to go and, thankfully, I found a job.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Jobs, Prayer, Couple

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Destroy the old files, but make copies first.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Firsts, Copies

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• If you cannot saw with a file or file with a saw, then you will be no good as an experimentalist.

  Augustin-Jean Fresnel

  Saws, Ifs

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• If a building makes us light up, it is not because we see order; any row of file cabinets is ordered. What we recognize and love is the same kind of pattern we see in every face, the pattern of our own life form. The same principles apply to buildings that apply to mollusks, birds or trees. Architecture is the play of patterns derived from nature and ourselves.

  Jonathan Hale

  Love Is, Light, Order

  Jonathan Hale (1994). “The Old Way of Seeing”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The gourney, the big file drawers of the dead, the instruments of dissection - this sure looked like the morgues in the movies. Something had gone seriously wrong while she slept.

  Christopher Moore

  Gone, Bigs, Drawers

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• During intermission she peeked out at the theater, watching it refill. When it was almost full and the lights blinked on and off, she saw three people file in through the center door and her breath caught. Time lapsed as they walked down the center aisle: three teenage girls all in a row. They were so big, so bright, so beautiful, so magnificent to Carmen’s eyes that she thought she was imagining them. They were like goddesses, like Titans. She was so proud of them! They were benevolent and they were righteous. Now, these were friends.

  Ann Brashares

  Beautiful, Girl, Teenage

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• E!" Klaus cried. "E as in Exit!" The Baudelaires ran down E as in Exit, but when they reached the last cabinet, the row was becoming F as in Falling File Cabinets, G as in Go the Other Way! and H as in How in the World Are We Going to Escape?

  Daniel Handler

  Fall, World, Way

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• The file clanked against me, my stupid idea nobody would have gotten had I ever done it. You even wouldn't have gotten it, Ed, I thought, watching her go. It's why we broke up, so here it is. Ed, how could you?

  Daniel Handler

  Stupid, Ideas, Done

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• The 'medium' is unaware of its attractiveness, that's all. Everyone loves comics. I've proven this to my own satisfaction by handing them out to acountants, insurance brokers, hairdressers, mothers of children, black belts, pop stars, taxi drivers, painters, lesbians, doctors etc. etc. The X-Files, Buffy, the Matrix, X-Men - mainstream culture is not what it once was when science fiction and comics fans huddled in cellars like Gnostic Christians dodging the Romans. We should come up into the light soon before we suffocate.

  Grant Morrison

  Christian, Mother, Stars

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• Wait. You've got principles? We'll have to update your file.

  Simon R. Green

  Waiting, Principles, Updates

  Simon R. Green (2011). “A Hard Day's Knight”, p.91, Penguin

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• I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one.

  Angela Carter

  Flower, Heart, Tissue Paper

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• I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison

  Kim Harrison

  Stupidity, Black, Magic

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• - L, did you know we’re reenacting the Salem witch trials in English tomorrow? - Haven’t been memorizing your case file? Do you even look in your backpack anymore? - Did you know my dad is videotaping it? I do. Because I walked in on his lunch date with Mrs. English. - Ewww. - What should we do? - I guess we should start calling her Ms. English? - Not funny, L.

  Kami Garcia

  Dad, Witch Trials, Lunch

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• People can be cruel,' he says with a sympathetic look that makes me trust him even more. And right then I realize that he is not writing down all my words in a file, which I really appreciate, let me tell you.

  Matthew Quick

  Writing, People, Appreciate

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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• While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Leadership, Cheer, Party

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• I am attracted to generic or 'industrial' colours; paper bag brown, file cabinet gray, industrial green, that kind of thing.

  Robert Mangold

  Bags, Paper, Green

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• I've wiped the file? .... I've wiped all the files? .... I've wiped the INTERNET? I don't even have a modem!

  Eddie Izzard

  Internet

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• Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.

  Melissa Bean

  Giving Up, Rights, Privacy

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• Rappers shouldn't have to file taxes because they itemize everything they own in songs.

  Damien Fahey

  Song, Rapper, Taxes

  Twitter post from Jul 05, 2012

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• The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Lonely, Art, Begging You

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• A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

  Fred Brooks

  Independent, Data, Trying

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• I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.

  Wen Ho Lee

  Technique, Used, Protect

  "Ethnic Profiling, Other Issues Still Surround Wen Ho Lee Case". Interview with James Riordon, www.aps.org. July 2002.

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• An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.

  Jef Raskin

  Names, Length, Unlimited

  "The Humane Interface". Book by Jef Raskin, 2001.

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• As the LSD began to take effect, I suddenly said in a very loud voice, while pounding on top of a file, “Every psychiatrist, every psychoanalyst should be forced to take LSD in order to know what is over here.”

  John C. Lilly

  Loud Voices, Order, Lsd

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