Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Charles Babbage: Empty basket
“What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.” —Charles Babbage.
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Phyllis Diller: Office Christmas parties
“What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.” —PHYLLIS DILLER.
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Kate McGahan: Intangible thing
“Love is an intangible thing. When you truly love, you learn that what you feel is more significant than anything that you can see. Love has more power than any weapon. It is more life giving than food or medicine.”— Kate McGahan.
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Isaac Asimov: Cult of ignorance
‘There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”‘ —Isaac Asimov.
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Victor Borge: Once a year
“Santa Claus has the right idea – visit people only once a year.”— Victor Borge.
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Saadi of Shiraz: Raindrop
“A raindrop, dripping from a cloud, / Was ashamed when it saw the sea. / “Who am I where there is a sea?” it said. / When it saw itself with the eye of humility, / A shell nurtured it in its embrace.” —Saadi of Shiraz.
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Oprah Winfrey: Cheers to a new year
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” —Oprah Winfrey.
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Rainer Maria Rilke: Long year
“And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands.”—Rainer Maria Rilke.
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George Marshall: Prevent it
“The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.” —George Marshall.
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Marshall McLuhan: Every society
“Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.” —Marshall McLuhan.
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Khaleda Zia: Parliamentary politics
“It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.” —Khaleda Zia.
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Robert Delaunay: Movement of colours
“Light in Nature creates the movement of colours.” —Robert Delaunay.
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Jane Austen: Agreeable
“I DO NOT WANT PEOPLE TO BE VERY AGREEABLE, AS IT SAVES ME THE TROUBLE OF LIKING THEM A GREAT DEAL.” —JANE AUSTEN.
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Henry Spencer: If you lie to the compiler
“If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.” —Henry Spencer.
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Charles Lamb: The office
“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.” —Charles Lamb.
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Admiral Hyman Rickover: Success
“As long as a man is trying as hard as he can to do what he thinks to be right, he is a success, regardless of the outcome.” —Admiral Hyman Rickover.
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Justin Trudeau: I’m a feminist
“Quite frankly I talk about the fact that I’m a feminist as often as I can, and every time I do it gets huge reaction and media reacts and the Twitterverse explodes and things like that, because here I am saying I’m a feminist. I will keep saying that until there is no more reaction…
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Lao Tzu: Time
“Time is a created thing. To say, ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.’”—Attributed to Lao Tzu.
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Ronald Graham: You’ve always got the night
“Well, as you know, there are 24 hrs in every day. And if that’s not enough, you’ve always got the night.”— Ronald Graham.
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Rob Reiner: Feelings are always the same
“You – I don’t think anybody ever forgets the first person they fell in love with. That’s something that everybody remembers, and it doesn’t matter what the time period is or where; I mean, those feelings are always the same.” —Rob Reiner.
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Stephen King: Real life endings
“And in real life endings aren’t always neat, whether they’re happy endings, or whether they’re sad endings.” —Stephen King.
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Phil Ochs: True protest is beauty
“You must protest / It is your diamond duty / Ah but in such an ugly time / The true protest is beauty.” —Phil Ochs.
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Ogden Nash: Middle age
“Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.”—Ogden Nash.
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Steve Biko: Mind of the oppressed
“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” —Steve Biko.
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Steve Haflich: Hammer thumb
“When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb.” —Steve Haflich.
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Chelsea Manning: Patriotism
“Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power.” —Chelsea Manning.
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Doug Larson: Nostalgia
“Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.” — Doug Larson.
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E F L Woodford: Everything
“Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.” —E. F. L. Woodford.
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Muhammad Ali: Champions
“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them—a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.” — Muhammad Ali.
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Oscar Wilde: Other people
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”— Oscar Wilde.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Violence and falsehood
“Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as…
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Adam Levine: I hate flying
“I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.”— Adam Levine.
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Sophie Kinsella: Perspective
“If you want something you can’t afford, think what else that money could buy: a week’s groceries, a month’s rent, or a weekend away. That will put things into perspective.” —Sophie Kinsella.
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Emily Dickinson: Tell it slant
“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—- / … The Truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind.” —Emily Dickinson
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Theodore Roosevelt: Work worth doing
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”— Theodore Roosevelt.
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Thich Nhat Hanh: Walk on earth
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.”— Thich Nhat Hanh.
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Warren Buffett: Wrong decisions
“Wrong decisions are part of life. Being able to make them work anyway is one of the abilities of those who are successful.” —Warren Buffett.
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David Foster Wallace: Learning how to think
“Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.” —David Foster Wallace.
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Clara Hughes: Medals are things I send to my mom
“In my heart it is clear to me why I go to the line time and again. I can assure you it’s not a medal hanging around my neck I’m after. Medals are things I send to my mom in Winnipeg, which she in turn shares with friends and family. They are not what provide…
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W Somerset Maugham: People want praise
“People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.” —W Somerset Maugham.
