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.

Kevin Beary

He's not watching television, 'cause we've done some things so he can't watch television.

Geena Davis

I watch very little television, actually. There's so many shows I want to watch and then I know I'll get hooked and I have to binge-watch the entire thing.

Gary Cole

You don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed. So a lot of that doesn't take place on television, at least the television I was doing at the time when I first started.

Gary Cole

Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.

Fred W. Friendly

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

Eddie Cahill

I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

Helen McCrory

I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.

Henry Ian Cusick

I feel like I'm part of television history.

John Krasinski

To me, television is one of the most exciting things going on right now, as far as content goes. Some of these shows that are on television are better than any of the movies out there.

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Dolores Huerta

Every minute a chance to change the world…

Dolores Huerta

We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.

Dolly Parton

You never know what's going to happen to you when you head out into the big world. And when you get older, you don't know how you're going to be thought of or seen.

Dolly Parton

The world is my stage.

Dino De Laurentiis

If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it.

Diogenes

We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?

Dick Gephardt

I've thought a lot about the world and how George Bush sees the world and it ain't even close.