I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'
Roy Blount, Jr.
You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.
Adam Scott
We're called Shadowhunters. At least, that's what we call ourselves. The Downworlders have less complimentary names for us.
Cassandra Clare
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. Buckminster Fuller
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Voltaire
It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully.
Doug Vargas
As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?'
Nicholas Brendon
They won't be required to sacrifice anything in order to belong to your assembly. A religion that is all sweetness, but no light; all form, but no substance; all tradition, but no precept.
Orson Scott Card
Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.
Zach Wamp
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Anon.
Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.
Jodi Picoult
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Samuel Johnson
As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.
Maurice Wilkes
Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress.
Steve Maraboli
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.
Uma Thurman
Cannot find REALITY.SYS...Universe Halted.
Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Ambrose Bierce
In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.
Paul Robeson
Two things instruct man about his whole nature; instinct and experience.
Blaise Pascal
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
Erma Bombeck
We are the people our parents warned us about.
Jimmy Buffett
Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns.
It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.
James Wolcott
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Spiro T. Agnew
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln
Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
Halle Berry
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Martin Luther King Jr.
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie
What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to, or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Sir Winston Churchill
It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp.
Tony Campolo
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
Aesop
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
George Bernard Shaw
I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
Tom Stoppard
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Johann von Goethe, attributed; u
I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.
Steven Wright
No one is listening until you make a mistake.
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