Quotes about backup (15 quotes) | Quotes of famous people

“Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with is"
Sure" said Magnus. "And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

World

“The second bathroom's downstairs - that's kind of the emergency backup bathroom when Shane's in there moussing his hair for like an hour or something…."
"" Shane yelled from behind the closed door.”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

“What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked.
Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us."
"Sure," said Magnus. "And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

World

“Shapeshifter parenting motto—if your kid slits somebody's throat, always have a backup plan to make the body disappear.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

Parent

“But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

For Parents , Feeling , Parent , Fight

“I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

Guy

“I don’t see myself as a backup outfielder. I still feel like I can play every day. This is the time for me to show that.”

Juan Lagares (1989) baseball player

New York Daily News http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/juan-lagares-working-show-mets-backup-article-1.3487216

Feeling , Time

“Variable but forecastable renewables (wind and solar cells) are very reliable when integrated with each other, existing supplies and demand. For example, three German states were more than 30 percent wind-powered in 2007—and more than 100 percent in some months. Mostly renewable power generally needs less backup than utilities already bought to combat big coal and nuclear plants' intermittence.”

Amory B. Lovins (1947) American physicist

Missing the Market Meltdown http://www.newsweek.com/id/137501 (May 2008)

“What I gotta do?
Cats don't even have a clue
Can't stand to see
Me kick a flow so unbelievably
And never gave a hand
Askin' 'bout the backup plan
Now that it's true
Forever tellin' me that you always knew”

Eamon (singer) (1984) American singer

"Controversy"
Lyrics, I Don't Want You Back (2004)

Cats

“Sure. And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour.”

Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments

Magnus to Alec, pg. 145
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

World

“Having Plan B is good. But if your obsessed with Plan A, u'll never need backup. Become Obsessed with ur goals, ur focus will bring results.”

Keshia Chante (1988) Canadian actor and musician

Official Website (2009)

“The Bitchun Society has had much experience with restores from backup—in the era of the cure for death, people live pretty recklessly. Some people get refreshed a couple dozen times a year.”

Cory Doctorow book Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003)

Death , People , Time

“Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it;)”

Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker

Message, linux-kernel mailing list, IU, 1996-07-20, Torvalds, Linus, 2014-04-26 http://www.webcitation.org/6P8EBZqQX,
1990s, 1995-99

Men , World

“If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.”

Jack Valenti (1921–2007) President of the MPAA

Statement to the Associated Press (November 2003), as quoted in "DVD-copy program tweaked after court order" at CNN.com (23 February 2004) http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/02/23/dvd.suit.ap/

“We did not expect to have a backup system for the rest of the universe. We can rely upon it to be cold most of the time.”

Neal Stephenson book Seveneves

“YMIR” (p. 354)
Seveneves (2015), Part Two

Time , Universe