Cathal

“Looks like another scorcher today”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“Oddly, most of the emphasis in U.S. beer promotion is on name recognition, so ads feature humor or social situations unrelated to the taste, ingredients, or general quality of the beer. In other words, while advertising should extol the virtues and the various features of a product, mega-brewed beer advertising tends to ignore the beer itself (don't get me started as to why). For examples, try a Swedish bikini team, baseball in the Rockies, and animated frogs. Get the idea? Fun, though. Great creativity. Effective, too. But they say little about beer.”
― Steve Ettlinger, Beer For Dummies

“He didn't mince his words and his language was fairly flowery. He said if they didn't like it they could fuck off”
― Siobhan Creaton, Ryanair: How a Small Irish Airline Conquered Europe

“America's current China policy amounts to an unstated bargain: We have abandoned any serious attempt to challenge China's one-party state, and we have gotten in exchange the right to unfettered commerce with China.”
― James Mann, The China Fantasy: Why Capitalism Will Not Bring Democracy to China