Gob Quotes

• I don't want to blame it all on 9/11, but it certainly didn't help matters.

  Zach Braff

  Want, Matter, Helping

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• This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Book, Destiny

  Tropic of Cancer ch. 1 (1934)

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• Our business is not based on having information about you. You’re not our product. Our product are these, and this watch, and Macs and so forth. And so we run a very different company. I think everyone has to ask, how do companies make their money? Follow the money. And if they’re making money mainly by collecting gobs of personal data, I think you have a right to be worried.

  Tim Cook

  Running, Thinking, Data

  "Tim Cook Basically Just Said He Was 'Offended' By The Way Google And Amazon Do Business" by Jim Edwards, www.businessinsider.com. September 16, 2014.

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• When you meet people at dinner parties, you'll ask what they do and it might be a woman who'll say: "Oh I used to work but I'm only a housewife now." They'll put down what they've achieved, like raising kids. You want to say to people "well you're just a wonderful human, just because I have my gob on the telly and I've made some money, it doesn't make me successful or any better than you."

  Mary Portas

  Party, Kids, Successful

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• The market won't let us treat all data equally because there's a potential to make huge gobs of money not doing that. In the United States of America, people will pay to be first unless we do something to stop them. We don't have defenses built in because we haven't been investing in criticism that would help us mount a defense. I

  Astra Taylor

  Data, America, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or two. There was so much death around that life seemed almost indecent. Some men's uniforms were soaked with gobs of blood. The ground was sodden with it. I killed, too.

  William Manchester

  Powerful, Past, Men

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• A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything that was literature has fallen from me. There are no more books to be written, thank God. This then? This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty . . . what you will.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Book, Character

  Henry Miller, Mary V. Dearborn (2007). “Crazy Cock”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter.

  Michael Symon

  Stuff, Buying, Firm

  "Top Chefs Share Their Mothers’ Best Lessons" by Allison Adato, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2012.

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• London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.

  Miranda Richardson

  London, Grounded

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• If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.

  Donna Brazile

  Vision, Opponents, Defining

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• Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay. The upshot is that a mediocre-or-worse CEO - aided by his handpicked VP of human relations and a consultant from the ever-accommodating firm of Ratchet, Ratchet and Bingo - all too often receives gobs of money from an ill-designed compensation arrangement.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Bingo, Lines

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• I can't wait for the oil wells to run dry, for the last gob of black, sticky muck to come oozing out of some remote well. Then the glory of sail will return.

  Tristan Jones

  Running, Oil, Waiting

  Tristan Jones (1998). “Ice!”, p.35, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• How does it taste?” Carter wondered. Zia smiled. “Stick out your tongue.” To answer Carter’s question, the tattoo tasted like burning car tires. “Ugh.” I spit a blue gob of “order and harmony” into the fountain.

  Rick Riordan

  Tattoo, Blue, Order

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Jeez banana! Shut your freaking gob!

  Diablo Cody

  Bananas

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• If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.

  Frank McCourt

  Mean, Giving, Parent

  Frank McCourt (2005). “Teacher Man: A Memoir”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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