Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Gilder

In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb.

Rachel Nichols

Sci-fi fans are awesome. They're very smart, they like to be involved, they like to ask questions. I've been asked questions I don't even know the answer to. I've never had any aggressive interactions. I've had lovely interactions.

Newt Gingrich

Now, we don't get rid of it in round one because we don't think that that's politically smart, and we don't think that's the right way to go through a transition. But we believe it's going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it - voluntarily.

Noam Chomsky

We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart than stupid.

Joe Dumars

We have very smart players and they've been fortunate to play for three very good coaches.

Jodi Picoult

On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.

John Green

Too pissed off to cry, I said, 'This is only making me hate her. I don't want to hate her. And what's the point, if that's all it's making me do?' Still refusing to answer how and why questions. Still insisting on an aura of mystery. I leaned forward, head between by knees, and the Colonel placed a head on my upper back. 'The point is that there are always alsweres, Pudge.' And then he pushed air out between his pursed lips and I could hear the angry quiver in his voice as he repeated, 'There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.' ~Miles/Pudge and Chip/the Colonel, pg 168

John Green

As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, "Wait, wait. I don't get it." "That's because you have eight functioning brain cells." "Studies show that Marijuana is better for your health than those cigarettes," Hank said. Alaska swallowed a mouthful of fries, took a drag on her cigarette, and blew a smoke at Hank. "I may die young," she said. "But at least I'll die smart. Now, back to tangents.

John Green

And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

Paula Creamer

I just have to keep working hard.

Peter Thiel

What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy.

Lee R. Raymond

The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit system, which I think gives people the greatest opportunity.

Lawrence Hargrave

The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless the same with American workers. I know that success is dead sure to come, and therefore do not waste time and words in trying to convince unbelievers.

Lauren Conrad

I go into meetings, and people have this preconceived notion of me that I didn't work hard to get where I am.

Lauren Conrad

There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.

Lady Gaga

Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart

Leonard Boswell

The American work ethic is something to be admired. Our workforce, regardless of position, works hard to produce the best product and serve customers to the best of their ability.

Karl Popper

[Great scientists] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are right by trying first to find whether they are not perhaps wrong. They work with bold conjectures and severe attempts at refuting their own conjectures.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Daniel Kahneman

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

David Arquette

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

David Liss

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

David Lynch

Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!

David Halberstam

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

Dan Brown

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

Corey Clark

For the past two years,the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.

Corita Kent

When you get past making labels for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look at things until their import, identity, name, use, and description have dissolved.