Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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G K Chesterton: Uninterested person
“There is no such thing as an uninteresting subject: there is only such a thing as an uninterested person.” —G K Chesterton.
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Orson Welles: Intimate dinners for four
“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.” —Orson Welles.
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Ambrose Bierce: Absurdity
“Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.” —Ambrose Bierce.
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Samuel Johnson: So much of everything
“A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.” – Samuel Johnson.
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Stephen Hawking: Purely destructive
“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.” – Stephen Hawking.
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Ambrose Bierce: Love
“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.” —Ambrose Bierce.
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Isaac Asimov: Not through ignorance
“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.” —Isaac Asimov.
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Dean Martin: Without holding on
“You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.” —Dean Martin.
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Warren Beatty: Procreative racial deconstruction
“All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just keep fuckin’ everybody ’til they’re all the same color.” —Warren Beatty.
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Isaac Asimov: Troublesome transition
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” —Isaac Asimov.
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Woody Allen: Terrible love life
“My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty.” —Woody Allen.
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Napoleon Bonaparte: Tricks of war
“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.” —Napoleon.
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Oscar Wilde: Always forgive your enemies
“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.” —Oscar Wilde.
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Ambrose Bierce: Rapturous contemplation
“Man: An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.” —Ambrose Bierce.
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Albert Einstein: Both disappointed
“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.” —Albert Einstein
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Nicole Hollander: World without men
“Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.” —Nicole Hollander.
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Pearl S Buck: Halfway moment
“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.” —Pearl S. Buck.
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Albert Einstein: Mysterious tune
“Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.” —Albert Einstein.
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Derek Walcott: Nobody’s special property
“The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.” —Derek Walcott.
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Pearl S Buck: Moods
“Don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.” —Pearl S. Buck.
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Conan O’Brien: Grim
“This is going to sound grim, but eventually, all our graves go unattended.” —Conan O’Brien, talk show host.
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Anushka Sharma: Different amounts of money
“A female newcomer and a male newcomer will get paid different amounts of money. You’re a newcomer, nobody knows who you are, man or woman doesn’t matter. But you’re going to get paid different money.” —Anushka Sharma.
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Lev Landau: Fear and laziness
“Everybody has a capacity for a happy life. All these talks about how difficult times we live in, that’s just a clever way to justify fear and laziness.” —Lev Landau.
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Martin Luther King Jr: Health care
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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Haemin Sunim: Gratitude
“The more grateful we feel, the happier we become. This is because gratitude helps us realize we are all connected.” —Haemin Sunim.
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Will Durrant: Instincts and feelings
“Reason is a tool, but character is based upon instincts and feelings into which reason seldom enters. Consequently, reason can not really be the dominant aspect of any age or any man. It’s an instinct.” —Will Durant.
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G K Chesterton: More and more revolutionary
“It is always said that a man grows more conservative as he grows older; but for my part, I feel myself in many ways growing more and more revolutionary. Perhaps, by the time I am ninety-seven or so, I shall be going about with a blood-red flag and a bomb, a sanguine and sanguinary anarchist,…
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Brad Pitt: Loves and regrets
“I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don’t discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that’s very telling.” —Brad Pitt.
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Samuel Johnson: Knowledge
“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books…
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Gilles Duceppe: History
“Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was unexpected. Who predicted the Arab Spring? Nobody expected it, but all the ingredients were there. I think all the ingredients are also there for Quebec to become a country. But when? That’s another question.” —Gilles Duceppe.
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James Cook: Turn his back on the crowd
“The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” —James Cook.
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Scott Morrison: Separation of church and state
“Separation of church and state was set up to protect the church from the state, not the other way around. To protect religious freedoms.” —Scott Morrison.
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Warren Mundine: Confront each other
“People – whether you like to hear what people have got to say, not you have got to listen to them, and turning your back on people I found very insulting. If you’re going to really make peace, you have got to confront each other and look each other in the eye, and that’s what’s…
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Wendy Piersall: When everyone else loves you first
“Google only loves you when everyone else loves you first.” –Wendy Piersall.
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Brian Clark: Headline copy
“On average, 8 out of 10 people will read your headline copy, but only 2 out of 10 will read the rest.”—Brian Clark.
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Steuart Henderson Britt: Winking in the dark
“Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.” —Steuart Henderson Britt.
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Howard Gossage: Sometimes, it’s an ad
“Nobody reads ads. People read what interests them. Sometimes, it’s an ad.” – Howard Gossage.
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David Beebe: First date
“Content marketing is like a first date. If you only talk about yourself, there won’t be a second one.” – David Beebe.
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Francisco Rosales: Validation
“When people feel insecure about something, they look around for validation. Show them that other people trust you.” —Francisco Rosales.
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Michael Hyatt: Sharing your passion
“Marketing is really just about sharing your passion.” –Michael Hyatt.
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Brian Chesky: Something 100 people love
“Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.” – Brian Chesky.
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Gary Vaynerchuk: CARE
“The best marketing strategy ever: CARE.” –Gary Vaynerchuk, entrepreneur, speaker and marketing expert.
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Conor Ryan: Transcend the big screen
“Advertisers are missing opportunities to transcend the big screen by encouraging interaction with branded content on their smartphones.” —Conor Ryan.
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G K Chesterton: Government is force
“Government does not rest on force. Government is force; it rests on consent or a conception of justice.” —G K Chesterton.
