Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Levie

Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

Jeffrey Tambor

Joe Mantello is the uber director. I wrote him a card tonight saying basically, 'Will you adopt me?'

David Mamet

A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.

Peter Thiel

If the slogan for Google is 'Don't be evil', then the slogan for Uber is 'Do a little bit of evil & don't get caught.'

Travis Kalanick

When theres no other dude in the car, the cost of taking an Uber anywhere becomes cheaper than owning a vehicle. So the magic there is, you basically bring the cost below the cost of ownership for everybody, and then car ownership goes away.

Travis Kalanick

Our whole goal is to drive the cost of taking an Uber BELOW the cost of owning a car.

Zhang Xin

Our tenants now are companies like Uber, the taxi service, Meituan.com, China's version of Groupon - and a large number of startups. These companies operate in a modern way, just like their customers: They go on the Internet, look for an offer and take it.

Donald Trump

I played golf with my friends, and then I started to play with the hustlers. And I learned a lot. I learned about golf; I learned about gambling. I learned about everything.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.'

Will Chase

I played more performances of 'Chris' in 'Miss Saigon' than anyone else.

Colm Meaney

I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

Bill Hader

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

Bill Bryson

I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it.

Arsene Wenger

Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.

Arsene Wenger

Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.

Arsene Wenger

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

C. S. Lewis

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

C. S. Lewis

I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

Cecelia Ahern

When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two.

Carrie Fisher

I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.

Carrie Fisher

There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.

Carl Rogers

Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between mind and body, feelings and intellect, would be obliterated.

Carl Sagan

Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline.

Carl Sagan

First rule in government spending: Why build one, when you can have two at twice the price?

Bill Bryson

A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work.