Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth

The most I can do is to acquaint you with the authority of your own psyche - to give you a trust in the nature of your being. For, if you trust what you are, you can never go wrong in whatever terms you use. You can fly through belief systems as a butterfly flies through back yards.

Linus Torvalds

The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.

Linus Torvalds

I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

Peter Gabriel

Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.

Joseph Epstein

Always seek the general and never quite trust it.

Kofi Annan

I believe that our world needs an instrument of global action as never before in history. I believe that the United Nations is the instrument for securing peace and for giving people everywhere, in poorer countries as in richer, a real stake in that peace by promoting development and encouraging cooperation. But the United Nations is only an instrument, an actor in need of props and cues from its directors, And so I will paraphrase Winston Churchill: Give us the tools-the trust, the authority and the means-and we will do the job.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

Brian Aldiss

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Delta Goodrem

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

Denis Johnson

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

Bobby Farrelly

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

Donna Tartt

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

Donna Tartt

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

Donna Tartt

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

Donna Tartt

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

Donald Hall

Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper.

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Charles Kettering

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Demi Lovato

When I look back, it saddens me to think that I was so hard on myself - when I was younger, I thought I had to look like everyone else, but I learned that beauty comes from how you feel about yourself. Once I started taking care of my mind, body, and soul, I realized that I didn't need to conform to what's "normal" and started to love myself.

Demetri Martin

I think it's interesting that cologne rhymes with alone.

Branch Rickey

Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

Bob Dole

I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn't have any.

Brenda Laurel

I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.

Billy Boyd

I think Scotland has some great stories.