Quote of the day

A collection of handpicked words.

27 January 2014“The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.”Steve Jobs

26 January 2014“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”Anne Frank

25 January 2014“Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.”John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

24 January 2014“It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.”Lois McMaster Bujold

23 January 2014“I don't think it's good that we're perceived as different I think it's important we're perceived as MUCH BETTER. If being different is essential to doing that, then we have to do that, but if we could be much better without being different, that'd be fine with me. I want to be much better! I don't care about being different, but we'll have to be different in some ways to be much better.”Steve Jobs

22 January 2014“I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”Isaac Newton

21 January 2014“The only shame is to have none.”Blaise Pascal

20 January 2014“ Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”Isaac Asimov

19 January 2014“History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.”Henry Ford

18 January 2014“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”William Shakespeare

17 January 2014“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”Rene Descartes

16 January 2014“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”Lucille Ball

15 January 2014“The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.”Hillary Clinton

14 January 2014“The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.”Salvador Dali

13 January 2014“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”Michelangelo

12 January 2014“I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”Anne Frank

11 January 2014“A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.”Lois McMaster Bujold

10 January 2014“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”Jim Morrison

9 January 2014“Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.”Groucho Marx

8 January 2014“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”Abraham Lincoln

7 January 2014“We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.”Sigmund Freud

6 January 2014“Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.”Charlie Chaplin

5 January 2014“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”William Shakespeare

4 January 2014“There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.”Winston Churchill

3 January 2014“The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.”John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

2 January 2014“It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.”Christina Aguilera

1 January 2014“Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.”Josh Billings

31 December 2013“The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.”Douglas Adams

30 December 2013“Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.”Charlie Chaplin

29 December 2013“All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.”Thomas Mann