Famous Quotes & Sayings

George R. R. Martin

The apples stewed with prunes are excellent, except for the prunes, I won't eat prunes myself. Well, there was one time when Hobb chopped them up with chesnuts and carrots and hid them in a hen. Never trust a cook, my lord. They'll prune you when you least expect it.

Gail Simmons

You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.

Gabe Newell

I have no direct knowledge of this, but I suspect that Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people's expectations really strongly, and the notion of a separate console platform will disappear concurrent with Apple's announcement.

George Horace Lorimer

When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.

There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety.

J. B. Priestley

We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best among us cannot pretend they deserve - or could contrive - anything better.

J. B. Smoove

You buy a new iPhone, a few months later, another new iPhone comes out, and you get online to buy another one. You can't get enough. You are addicted to Apple.

Elon Musk

In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.

Guy Kawasaki

Look back to the old days: people bought an MS DOS machine and struggled with it for weeks to bring it up to speed. Then Apple created Macintosh, struggled a bit with it, but eventually succeeded. Then it went into other businesses. If your company truly wants to change the world, it would make these problems go away for customers.

Gwen Moore

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

J. D. Salinger

I've never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters.

Jack Horner

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

One parent asked me if we ever needed someone to pick up sticks. I said sure and they sent their son to help out around the farm. Then the apples were ready. Soon two more boys were there to help get the ladders out and pick the apples. Then something was ready in the garden and we decided to start canning and eventually decided to enter the Clay County Fair.

Some ISPs are very proactive, and are spending huge amounts of money combating spam. The problem is not all ISPs are doing this. A smaller group of ISPs profit from carrying spam or take no action, and those bad apples touch the rest of the ISP community.

Bill Budge

When I am starting a new game, I have to program it for the Apple, because I want to get all of the markets.

Bertrand Russell

How about Pithecanthropus Erectus? Was it really he who ate the apple? Or was it Homo Pekiniensis?

Kathy Smith

The apples are riper. Tech companies going public are more established compared to the ones at the time of the bubble.

Steve Young

I think more than anything, his game-day career was just the coasting part of his life. It was just picking up the harvest. All the apples were already on the tree.

George Herbert

He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.

Jay Inslee

Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.

Jay Carney

It is an apple full of worms compared to an apple that's fresh and delicious.

Jane Porter

The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered.

Fulton J. Sheen

All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.

Henry David Thoreau

The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native fruit which for the most part went to the cider mill. But since the temperance reform and the general introduction of grafted fruit, no wild apples, such as I see everywhere in deserted pastures, and where the woods have grown up among them, are set out. I fear that he who walks over these hills a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples.

Henry David Thoreau

What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!

Henry David Thoreau

There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the house.

Jeremy Bulloch

My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.

Groucho Marx

If you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce, it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does.

Gianfranco Zola

I'm going down the apples and pears, into the jam jar, down the frog and toad into the rub-da-dub-dub, and I'm going to have pig's ear.

Jakob Nielsen

Windows '98 is so similar to Windows '95 because Apple hasn't invented anything worth copying since 1995.

Glenn Beck

Apple might not love me, but I love Apple.

Gary Hamel

Truth be told, there are lots of companies that provide exemplary phone support. DirecTV, Virgin America and Apple are a few that regularly exceed my expectations.

How we did it before wasn't a fair comparison. It wasn't an apples to apples comparison.