Chairs and tables, however richly gilt and carved, sofas, resting on lions' paws with swans' necks curving under them, beds even of the softest swansdown are not by themselves enough. People sitting in them, people lying in them improve them amazingly.
Virginia Woolf: Orlando: A Biography
'cause I'm exactly where I wanna be.
Always have, always will.
Ain't no fuckin' stoppin' me.
There was a lull while Hackworth and Finkle-McGraw watched the little scenes; one of the hazards of living in a world filled with mediatrons was that conversations were always being interrupted in this way, and that explained why Atlantans tried to keep mediatronic commodities to a minimum.
Neal Stephenson: The Diamond Age
Pünktlichkeit ist die Kunst, richtig abzuschätzen, um wie viel sich die anderen verspäten werden.
Unbekannt
Miteinander reden klappt am besten wenn beide alle beteiligten das wollen.
