The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
If your idea is big enough and crazy enough, all you have to do is survive. If you survive you will succeed.
Finishing a book has massive implications for the writer, an empty head and an empty bank account springs to mind.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.
The hound and hare were both so wearied that the peasant got them all.
For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.
I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.
I fold my hands under my head and tell the books all about you. They listen, Beck. I know it sounds crazy, but they do.
The only thing crueler than a cage so small that a bird can’t fly is a cage so large that a bird thinks it can fly.
If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I’m on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we’re too old to be young.
But the most important thing I know is that I want the possibility of you more than the reality of [her].
I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.
If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order ...
If, like me, you have many reasons to be less than secure and self-assured, and like me, you are far from stable even on your best days, don't for a moment imagine a psychotherapist will be of more help than a physiotherapist.
In whatever number of years I have on Earth, I think that promoting the values of free expression, the openness of the Internet, that's the best use of my time.
I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.
I've played a Nintendo Wii. I don't see it as a competitor. It's more of an expensive niche game device. We're selling a lot of PlayStation 3s now and it's still the best way to buy a Blu-ray player.
