(649 quotes found)
“So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.”
Steve Jobs
“I haven't shaved my private parts, but I dyed them once for a laugh! They looked more ginger, though!”
Lee Ryan
“I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese - and there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between any of them except for one unchanging, certain fact: the best, most skillful pilot has the most experience.”
Chuck Yeager
“As two floating planks meet and part on the sea,O friend! so I met and then parted from thee.”
William R. Alger
“I had really tried to do everything else but [revisit Oz]. Partly because I knew there would be some amongst us who would say, 'Oh, he's just trying to milk that cow.' . . . . But in the end, I had an idea I couldn't get rid of. I couldn't get it out of my room.”
Gregory Maguire
“The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed--it is a process of elimination.”
Elbert Hubbard
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
Anatole France
“I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.”
D.H. Lawrence
“Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual unity.”
Ruth Nanda Anshen
“May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore,/ The parting word shall pass my lips no more!”
William Cowper