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"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate." »Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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"Marriage. Why do we do it Everybody knows the stats. One in two marriages end up in broken dishes and a trip to Tijuana. Is it loneliness Partly. Is it teamwork Definitely. Things just kind of go easier when there's two of you. One of you can wait in line at the movie theater while the other guy parks the car. Get better seats that way. Better room rate when it's a double. Are you ready to file jointly...Above you is the sun and sky. Below you, the ground. Like the sun, your love should be constant, like the ground, solid." »Jed Seidel
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"What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better." »Doris Lessing
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"There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." »A. A. Milne
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"Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan." »Eliel Saarinen
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"It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature." »Steven Wright
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"In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing." »Antonio Porchia
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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." »Judy Garland
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"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else." »Judy Garland
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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." »Judy Garland
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"New York: A third-rate Babylon." »H. L. Mencken
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"The way to succeed is to double your error rate." »Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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"At any rate, I am convinced that He God does not play dice." »Albert Einstein
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"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate." »Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, D.C.
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"At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice." »Albert Einstein, In a letter to Max Born, 1926
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"The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men" »Henry B. Adams
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"Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness." »Chamfort
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"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible." »William Faulkner
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"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats." »Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985
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"Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents." »Ezra Loomis Pound
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"No one has a monopoly of the true God, nor is there a nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that it has been given the exclusive right to the Creator or sole knowledge of His Being." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works..." »J. R. R. Tolkien
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"What if there had been room at the inn?" »Linda Festa on the origins of Christianity
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"Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you." »Julius Henry Marx
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"Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it." »Ken Thompson, quoted by Dennis Ritchie
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"There ought to be a room in every house to swear in." »Mark Twain
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"There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."" »Frederick L Collins
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