“Life could not be entirely devoted to debauchery and monkeys. Magnus had to finance all the drinking somehow.”

Source: The Runaway Queen

If we refuse to do it from the bottom we shall have to do it from the top, and doing it from the top means the emergence of many Prussias — with wars upon wars.
Henry Gantt cited in: Leon Pratt Alford (1934) Henry Laurence Gantt, leader in industry. p. 265. Highlighted section quoted in: Henry Mintzberg (1994) The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning. p. 169.

The Madonna of the Future http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2460/2460-h/2460-h.htm (1879) <br class="br">The Atlantic Monthly, March 1873 http://books.google.com/books?id=T4cGAQAAIAAJ&amp;q=%22Cats+and+monkeys+monkeys+and+cats+all+human+life+is+there%22&amp;pg=PA293#v=onepage

Magnus Bane to a monkey in 1791, p. 12.
Source: The Bane Chronicles, What Really Happened in Peru (2013)
Context: He paused and admired the bromeliads, huge iridescent flower-like bowls made out of petals, shimmering with color and water. There were frogs inside the jewel-bright recesses of the flowers.
Then he looked up into the round brown eyes of a monkey.
'Hello, companion,' said Magnus.
The monkey made a terrible sound, half snarl and half hiss.
'I begin to rather doubt the beauty of our friendship,' said Magnus.

1912, on seeing the British government buildings of Shimla, in a letter to his wife. Published in The letters of Edwin Lutyens to his wife Lady Emily (1985) by Clayre Percy and Jane Ridley. p. 245.

Address at the International Women's Day Conference (2013)

Source: City of Ashes

Said about running eBay in its early days, quoted in the New York Times, &quot; EBay Bids on a New Path to Growth http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/07/technology/07ebay.html&quot;, February 6, 2011