Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Jorge Luis Borges: Fallible god
“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.” —Jorge Luis Borges.
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Christopher Parker: Procrastination
“Procrastination is like a credit card: its a lot of fun until you get the bill.” —Christopher Parker.
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William Ernest Henley: Captain of my soul
“It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.” —William Ernest Henley.
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Jackie DeShannon: New tomorrow
“There can be a new tomorrow / There can be a brighter day / There can be a new tomorrow / Love will find a way.” —Jackie DeShannon.
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John Carmack: Low-level programming
“Low-level programming is good for the programmer’s soul.” —John Carmack.
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Ogden Nash: Kempt, unkempt
“I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.” —-Ogden Nash.
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Gene Roddenberry: Science fiction
“The funny thing is that everything is science fiction at one time or another.” —Gene Roddenberry.
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Elayne Boosler: Never been married
“I’ve never been married, but I tell people I’m divorced so they won’t think something’s wrong with me.” —-Elayne Boosler.
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Denis Leary: Irate
“I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with.” —Denis Leary.
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Davy Crockett: Hypocritically immortalized
“I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized.” -Davy Crockett.
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Ted Hughes: Only calibration
“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.” —Ted Hughes.
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Mahendra Singh Dhoni: Three dogs
“I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.” —Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
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Pierre Richard: Sense of humour
“I appreciate a sense of humor in people, because sometimes it is our only weapon against all the bad things and injustices of life. “ —Pierre Richard.
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John Galsworthy: Untidy
“The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.” —John Galsworthy.
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Very much like glasses
“I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.” —Letitia Elizabeth Landon.
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George Packer: Wish and fear
“At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.” —George Packer.
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Ayn Rand: Inoperative
“When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men’s first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice.”—Ayn Rand.
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Robert Green Ingersoll: Hands that help
“The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this.” —Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator.
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Mark Knopfler: Just one world
“There’s so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.” —Mark Knopfler.
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Enid Blyton: Don’t leave someone for something
“Leave something for someone but don’t leave someone for something.” —Enid Blyton
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Leo Fender: Easy to repair, easy to construct
“If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.” —Leo Fender.
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Alija Izetbegovic: No matter how ugly the truth
“I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn’t been kind to us, but, with the help of God, we will prevail.” —Alija Izetbegovic.
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Russell Ackoff: Problem
“The best thing that can be done to a problem is to solve it.False.The best thing that can be done to a problem is to dissolve it, to redesign the entity that has it or its environment so as to eliminate the problem.Such a design incorporates common sense and research and increases our learning more…
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Guy de Maupassant: Memory
“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.” —Guy de Maupassant.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: If thou kiss not me?
“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?” —Percy Bysshe Shelley
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P D James: Every bird his worm
“God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.” —P D James.
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P D James: What a child doesn’t receive
“What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.” —P.D. James, novelist.
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Isabel Allende: Inhabited by spirits
“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.” —Isabel Allende.
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Jed S Rakoff: Baseball
“In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.” —Jed S Rakoff.
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Simon Sinek: Opportunity in uncertainty
“An infinite mindset sees opportunity in uncertainty.” —Simon Sinek.
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Annie Parisse: Right button
“You’d just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything.” —Annie Parisse.
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Simon Sinek: Something to believe in
“Great leaders give everyone something to believe in, not something to do.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Something to believe in
“Great leaders give everyone something to believe in, not something to do.” —Simon Sinek.
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Emily Bronte: Tyrant
“The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.” —Emily Bronte.
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Josh Radnor: Be kind
“It’s not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even – or rather, especially – when we’d prefer not to be.” —Josh Radnor.
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Karl Popper: Social creatures
“We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.” -Karl Popper, philosopher and professor (28 Jul 1902-1994).
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John Ashberry: Experiences
“I write with experiences in mind, but I don’t write about them, I write out of them.” —John Ashberry.
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Robert Rankin: Plagiarising
“Too afraid of plagiarising someone, so I stopped reading fiction in 1981.” —Robert Rankin.
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C G Jung: Transformed
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” —C.G. Jung.
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Regis Philbin: Four women
“When are four women ever happy for another woman getting something they’d love to have? Tell me that.” —Regis Philbin.
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Jay R Ferguson: Certainly
“Certainly I’m always willing to talk to anyone who’s interested in talking to me!” —Jay R Ferguson.
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Bella Abzug: Homemaker
“I prefer the word homemaker because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.” —Bella Abzug.
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Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy: Scar tissue
“It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.” —Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
