The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point, it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Thomas Henry Huxley

They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.

Earvin ''Magic'' Johnson

He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so that there was no knowing to which to reply.

Leo Tolstoy

Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain, judge, condemn, and punish the most insignificant offenses, while maintaining themselves by the greatest of all offenses, the annihilation of individual liberty.

Emma Goldman, Anarchism: What It

You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

Rashida Jones

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Henry Adams

At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what now you feel;Achilles absent was Achilles still:Yet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid.

Homer, Iliad, The

I ask myself: are defeats necessary? Well, necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for a dream, we have no experience and make mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Paulo Coelho

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Richard Cecil

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

Christian Marclay

If you just stay away from junk, and stick with what your mom taught you, you're eating pretty healthy.

Sprague Grayden