Quotes About Leakage

THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value from key financial markets, a contraction too gradual to generate headlines and too predictable to seriously hurt anybody but fools and the working poor.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

People are leaky.

For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

Corporations understand the value of security because the leakage of their competitive information could be the end of the corporation.

It's a day-one expectation that when you buy a processor, it's not going to leak your data.

all vessels leaked to some degree.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

Emotionally incontinent. A phrase he'd picked up from somewhere. It was the sort of thing Sarah might have said. Horrible but probably appropriate. He leaked unsuitable affection.

Once you open up a secret, it starts leaking out all over.

Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.

Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.

When you don't have enough or you run out, you feel in your core that the leak has begun and there will be no end to the leakage. And this makes you feel like a chump. Whereas having some money gives you the conviction that you're not naked in the howling wind, even though you basically are, existentially.

After Olestra (may cause anal leakage), people are a tad suspicious about products that do things that are too good to be true in the natural world. I tell this to the account people, and they say, But it comes from trees! To which I reply, Yes and so does napalm and rubber cement. But that doesn't mean I'm going to spread them on my English muffin.

A large vessel will never fill up no matter how small the leak is.

a term employed by law enforcement and mental health experts when trying to identify dangerous students or others before they become murderers. The term is "leakage," which means that signs of trouble or potential violence can leak out of kids as warning signals in advance of bloodshed.

On the golf course, playing cards, running to the casinos, betting on college and pro football, it keeps spilling over to the next step, the next step, the next step. I basically started giving people information that I was receiving in the locker room, injury reports.

But errors are consequences: the leakage that occurs around the edges when you put pressure on a system without taking other factors into account.

She spoke loudly in order to be heard above the noise of personal communitainers that were thudding and banging all around them. Some people used earphones, some didn't, clearly believing that as many people as possible should be given the opportunity to appreciate their musical taste. That, combined with the mass leakage from the headsets, created a terrible din and even discreet private conversations had to be conducted at a yell.

My repressed feelings leak out —slowly – in the form of resentment – a continual leakage of resentment.

When she wasn't leaking from one end, she was leaking from the other spewing white fluids from her mouth whenever she belched, as if she were auditioning for a remake of The Exorcist.

The woman he met at the Waxmans' that second evening seemed heavy at her core, subject to some crushing gravity. She was a vessel built to hold the pain of her history, but it had cracked her, and radiant darkness leaked out through the crack.

The Great Armada of Spain was probably the worst-kept secret in sixteenth-century Europe. Philip's government was notoriously leaky; indeed some of the king's most secret planning was known in the states of Italy, long skilled at gathering foreign