Facebook’s the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody’s personal information. It’s got a very good chance of being that.
BARRY DILLERYale’s greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.
More Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Quotes
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I actually acted onstage before I’d ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.
BOB GUNTON -
If I lose you because of the blind idiot I’ve been then I will be the one who is destroyed
ABBI GLINES -
You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.
CARLOS SLIM HELU -
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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Forgiveness is almost the hardest thing that you could ever do.
KYLIA JANE -
Everyone just talks about values that they don’t have themselves.
HEI-RAN PARK -
Never use the word ‘audience.’ The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don’t have an ‘audience’. They’re talking to a single person all the time.
ROBERT GRAVES -
Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY -
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
CHINUA ACHEBE -
Our baboon was going completely sky goddess – which is to say, nuts.
RICK RIORDAN -
I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence.
SIMON COWELL -
A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
TIM MINCHIN -
All parties are good.
BILL MURRAY -
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Comedy is all about the pause.
RON WHITE