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Quotes About Convenience

It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.
~ Adam Levine
There's something really easy and just somehow un-crowded about the Portland airport. Every time I go there I'm like, 'Why is this so easy and sweet?'
~ Fred Armisen
Even in downtown office areas, people would probably beg for a shuttle bus service to ferry them swiftly to the railway stations and bus stations, instead of forcing them to travel squashed up in shared-taxis.
~ Sucheta Dalal
There's a lot of jewelry in my bag. It's great because if a bracelet is bothering me or I want a midday change, I switch to another.
~ La La Anthony
I lose my cell phone so much that I switch it every month or so, but Sony Ericsson is usually what I use.
~ Chris Pratt
I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.
~ David Byrne
There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the flag of convenience, under which ships can fly the flag of a state that has nothing to do with its owner, cargo, crew, or route.
~ Rose George
Sai benissimo in cosa consista la vita, è fatta di qualità umane, tra le quali c'è un controllo dignitoso e intelligente degli appetiti che condividiamo con i cani. Un uomo non divora una carcassa o ulula su una collina dall'alba al tramonto; mangia cibo ben cucinato, se può permetterselo, e in quantità moderata, e adatta con saggezza i propri ardori alla convenienza.
~ Rex Stout
The last stretch of our walk was along a curving gravel path that wound through lawns, shrubs, trees, and different-shaped patches of bare earth. Living in the country would be more convenient if they would repeal the law against paths that go straight from one place to another place.
~ Rex Stout
Choosers are human, so designers should make life as easy as possible.
~ Richard H. Thaler
If you want to encourage people to do something, Make It Easy.
~ Richard H. Thaler
I have made and accepted my own version of the natural order of things, and actually supposed a universe that has, or damn well ought to have, my convenience in mind.
~ Richard Mitchell
Once you've bought a novel in your pajamas, there's no turning back.
~ Richard Powers
The product here is not so much books as that goal of ten thousand years of history, the thing the human brain craves above all else and nature will die refusing to give: convenience. Ease is the disease ...
~ Richard Powers
product here is not so much books as that goal of ten thousand years of history, the thing the human brain craves above all else and nature will die refusing to give: convenience. Ease is the disease and Nick is its vector. His employers are a virus that will one day live symbiotically inside everyone. Once you've bought a novel in your pajamas, there's no turning back.
~ Richard Powers
She never answers during the day, Max explained. She lets her machine pick up. People like you are the reason other people get answering machines to begin with, Miles told him. In fact, people like you are driving a lot of modern technology.
~ Richard Russo
We like it here very much. The All-Night Convenience was a fully stocked, self-sufficient organism, like the Starship Enterprise, or the Kon-Tiki.
~ Kelly Link
Batu said, "The All-Night is a great place to raise a family. Everything you need, right here. Diapers, Vienna sausages, grape-scented Magic Markers, Moon Pies—kids like Moon Pies—and then one day, when they're tall enough, we teach them how to operate the register.
~ Kelly Link
Todos toman lo que les conviene de las enseñanzas de la Iglesia y dejan de lado aquello que no se adapta a su forma de vida.
~ Ken Follett
Why would you go anyplace without your iPad? This is the greatest invention. When it gets a little more power, my God. It's like my office.
~ Scott Raab
Why buy vinyl when he could keep all his music on a device that fit in his pocket?
~ William Miller
We were spoiled unlike any generation in history, and we forgot completely just how dependent we were on the juice flowing through the wires, the buttons doing something when we pushed them.
~ William R. Forstchen
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Online ads might be annoying, but so is the cashier at your bookstore. But you probably never told yourself: "I want these books and magazines, but that payment part is really annoying… It's an interruption in my day to stand in line and take out my credit card. So I'll just take all the books I wanted and walk out the store without the annoying part!".
~ Yaron Galai