Velma Simmon

“London isn't a place at all. It's a million little places.”
― Bill Bryson, The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

“With the memory of Dr. H. H. Holmes still fresh in their minds”
― Harold Schechter, Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

“But the more the Tesla guys researched the industry, the more they realized that the big automakers don’t even really build their cars anymore. The days of Henry Ford having raw materials delivered to one end of his Michigan factory and then sending cars out the other end had long passed. “BMW didn’t make its windshields or upholstery or rearview mirrors,” Tarpenning said. “The only thing the big car companies had kept was internal combustion research, sales and marketing, and the final assembly. We thought naïvely that we could access all the same suppliers for our parts.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“this president is unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values. His leadership is transactional, ego driven, and about personal loyalty. We are fortunate some ethical leaders have chosen to serve and to stay at senior levels of government, but they cannot prevent all of the damage from the forest fire that is the Trump presidency. Their task is to try to contain it.”
― James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership