Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Jobs

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

Robert Boyle

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

Toni Morrison

You are your best thing

Toni Morrison

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

Tom Hanks

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

Tina Fey

Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.

Tina Fey

You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

Sallie Krawcheck

If you're not making some notable mistakes along the way, you're certainly not taking enough business and career chances.

Russell Simmons

It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Anne Sexton

There is hope. There is hope everywhere. Today God give milk and I have the pail.

Ambrose Bierce

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

Tom Stoppard

Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Where's the hope that can abate The grief of hearts thus desolate That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage, And mitigate the gloom of Age? Religion bids the tempest cease, And, leads her to a port of peace; And on, the lonely pilot steers Through the lapse of future years.

Martin Luther

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Mason Cooley

Hope likes justification, but can do without.

Adolfo Cambiaso

Memo is unbelievable, the way he is fit. I don't think I'll be playing that long, for sure. I hope I quit before that. I'll be around polo and horses and things like that, but not playing.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope

Nick Swisher

It's been like that all spring. It's just that balls decided to hang up there. It's hard to catch it when you can't see it. But that's how it's going to be in Oakland in the afternoon anyway.

Georg Brandes

The loathing of mankind is a force that surprises and overwhelms one, fed by hundreds of springs concealed his subconsciousness. One only detects its presence after having long entertained it unawares.

W. S. Merwin

I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.

Rudyard Kipling

Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.

Helen Garner

And always Melbourne, Melbourne, Melbourne, over and over the same photo in glaring greens and reds, of a tram, huffy, blunderous, manoeuvring itself with pole akimbo round the tight corner where Bourke Street enters Spring.

Friedrich Schiller

Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.

Lu Xun

I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring.

Mike Hargrove

That's about as surprised as I've been this Spring Training.

Kristin Chenoweth

I enjoy going to Palm Springs when I'm living in Los Angeles.