On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

J. K. Rowling

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

Mario Batali

I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.

Marissa Mayer

I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

Sara Blakely

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

Elizabeth Edwards

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

Nikos Kazantzakis

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

Edward Tufte

But, at the end of the day, we need to represent the taxpayers who have made enormous sacrifices. Many have lost their jobs. Many of them have seen their companies - they don't have a pension - they have seen their companies cut the match for their 401(k). They have seen their health care benefits be shredded.

John Kasich

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

Harold S. Geneen

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

Michael Tippett

I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

Frankie Valli

If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.

Oscar Wilde