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When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it's better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you'll be fine.
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When it comes to discrimination, Americans pride ourselves on how far we've come. Racial segregation is history. Explicit sex discrimination is banned. Same-sex marriage is the law of the land. But amidst all the progress, the male-female wage gap persists, and it's big.
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When it comes to investing, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all portfolio.
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When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.
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When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just keep moving and moving within the right direction, and everything will be all right.
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When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple fire:... And when the punctual May arrives, With cowslip-garland on her brow, We know what once she gave our lives, And cannot give us now!
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When meditation releases energy in you, it will find all sorts of ways to be expressed.
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When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.
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When money speaks, the truth keeps silent. Russian Proverb Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
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When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' I say: 'Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It's all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.'
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When my mother gets a prompt 'Do you want to download this?' she's going to say yes. It's disingenuous for Microsoft to give you all of these tools with which to hang yourself, and when you do, then say it's your fault.
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When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
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When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries everywhere is in danger.
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When people are desperate or wealthy, they turn to socialism; only when they have no other alternative do they embrace the free market. After all, lies about guaranteed security are far more seductive than lectures about personal responsibility.
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When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.
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When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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When the entrepreneur is obsessed with the product and the company has organized all of its activities around that, it's very powerful.
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