Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Henry Beston: Fellow prisoners
“The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with…
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Simon Sinek: Flexible
“When we have a clear sense of where we’re going, we are flexible in how we get there.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Delicate blend that drives innovation
“Pure pragmatism can’t imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can’t get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.” —Simon Sinek.
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Marilyn Monroe: Frightened
“If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.” —Marilyn Monroe.
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Walt Whitman: Sun around a helpless thing
“The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.” —Walt Whitman.
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Clint Eastwood: It’s only a movie
“Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, ‘Clint, you must remember, it’s only a movie.’” —Clint Eastwood.
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Tsar Peter the Great: Scolded
“How often have I not scolded you for this, and not merely scolded you but beaten you… but nothing has succeeded, nothing is any use, all is to no purpose, all is words spoken to the wind, and you want to do nothing but sit at home and enjoy yourself.” —Tsar Peter the Great.
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G K Chesterton: Journalism
“Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.” —G K Chesterton.
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Walker Percy: Perilous affair
“Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone’s finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?” —Walker Percy.
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Ian Fleming: Enemy action
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” —Ian Fleming.
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Elisabeth Kübler Ross: Beautiful people
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not…
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Hubert Humphrey: 172 years late
“There are those who say to you — we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.” —-Hubert Humphrey.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Too mellow for me
“But the fruit that can fall without shaking, / Indeed is too mellow for me.” —Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
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Dorothea Lange: Better find out why
“The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.” —Dorothea Lange.
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Alastair Campbell: Lot of people
“One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.” —Alastair Campbell.
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Carl Sagan: Pale blue dot
“It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the…
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Harry Emerson Fosdick: Life, a library
“Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.” —Harry Emerson Fosdick.
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Bob Dylan: Colleges
“Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.” —Bob Dylan.
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr: Bottom of creative heap
“What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who could make or break a film. But as we all know, the writer has always been at the bottom of the creative heap.” —Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Really intolerable
“You will, I am sure, agree with me that… if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.” —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Alexander Pope: Lay the old aside
“In words as fashions the same rule will hold,/ Alike fantastic if too new or old;/ Be not the first by whom the new are tried,/ Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.” —Alexander Pope.
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Simon Sinek: Work ethic versus passion
“Work ethic is giving great effort to complete a task. Passion is giving great energy to progress an ideal.” —Simon Sinek.
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Plato: Three classes of men
“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.” —Plato.
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Honore de Balzac: Vocations
“Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn’t, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.” —Honore de Balzac.
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Honore de Balzac: Look of pain
“Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.” —Honore de Balzac.
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Ruskin Bond: Red roses, French beans
“Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships.” —Ruskin Bond.
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Abraham Pais: War rule
“One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don’t know anything you don’t need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.” —Abraham Pais.
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Omar Khayyam: Paradise enow
“A book of verses underneath the bough, / A jug of wine, a loaf of bread — and thou / Beside me singing in the wilderness — / Oh, wilderness were paradise enow!” —Omar Khayyam
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Andreas Katsulas: What’s better?
“Well, you know, what’s better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?” —Andreas Katsulas.
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Alan Kay: Brute force and thousands of slaves
“Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.” —Alan Kay.
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Megan Fox: Baby talking
“I personally always find something really scary about watching little girls learning to manipulate their dads by baby talking. Then they grow up and use the same technique on their boyfriends or husbands. That scares me because it’s just so sick on so many levels.” —Megan Fox.
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Simon Sinek: Value of experimentation
“The value of experimentation is not in the trying.It’s in the trying again after the experiment fails.” —Simon Sinek.
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Alison Jackson: Photography
“Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can’t really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.” —Alison Jackson.
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Hal Borland: Suspicious of a tree
“You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.” —Hal Borland.
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Marguerite de Valois: Cut the matter short
“The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.” —Marguerite de Valois.
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Stephen Colbert: Dreams can change
“Thankfully, dreams can change. If we’d all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.” —Stephen Colbert.
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Stephen Baldwin: Jesus isn’t a logo
“Jesus isn’t a logo, I’m not promoting some company, some brand. I’m just professing my faith.” —Stephen Baldwin.
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Edsger W Dijkstra: Computer Science
“Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.” —Edsger W. Dijkstra.
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Martha Quinn: What you are willing to give yourself
“Demand no more out of your partner than what you are willing to give yourself.” —Martha Quinn.
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Donovan Phillips Leitch: Softer you sing
“The softer you sing, the louder you’re heard.” —Donovan Phillips Leitch
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Dave Gahan: Surface
“You’re only going to get surface with me. It takes me ages to warm up to people.” —Dave Gahan.
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Rabindranath Tagore: Burden of his tail
“The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of his tail.” —Rabindranath Tagore.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Only music
“Only music clarifies, reconciles, and consoles. But it is not a straw just barely clutched at. It is a faithful friend, protector, and comforter, and for its sake alone, life in this world is worth living. Who knows, perhaps in heaven there will be no music. So let us live on the earth while we…
