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«The organization man is dead. He thrived when smokestack America thrived. When airlines, banks and telephones were highly regulated. When Japan built shoddy cars. When computers were huge and an apple was something you ate.»
Author: Bruce Nussbaum
| About:
Technology
| Keywords:
airline, airlines, Apple Computer, Banks, cars, japan, organization man, regulated, shoddy, smokestack, smokestacks, telephones, The Organization, thrived
«Thousands stand and chant. Around them in the world, people ride escalators going up and sneak secret glances at the faces coming down. People dangle teabags over hot water in white cups. Cars run silently on the autobahns, streaks of painted light. People sit at desks and stare at office walls. They smell their shirts and drop them in the hamper. People bind themselves into numbered seats and fly across time zones and high cirrus and deep night, knowing there is something they've forgotten to do.»
«Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.»
Author: Francesca Lia Block
(Author)
| About:
Cute,
Wishes
| Keywords:
cars, first light, lifting, Old Course, Old Ones, one shot, pink, pinks, Planes, shooting, shooting star, Shooting Stars, The Pink, The Tunnel, tunneled, tunneling, tunnels
«What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.»
«Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.»
«To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons»
«Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars.»
«We can no longer allow America?s dependence on foreign oil to compromise our energy security. Instead, we must invest in inventing new ways to power our cars and our economy. I?ll put my faith in American science and ingenuity any day before I depend on Saudi Arabia.»
Author: Senator John Kerry
(Senator)
| About:
Dependence,
Economy,
Energy,
Oil,
Science,
Security
| Keywords:
cars
«The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
cars, supper, tanked, tank car
«The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds.»
Author: Will Rogers
| Keywords:
allowed, boulevard, boulevards, cars, highways, playgrounds, scarce, scarcer, scarcest, the country, traffic, traffics
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