Marissa Mayer Quotes

I was Google's first woman engineer.

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• I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Things

• Heartbreak is hard, but you find more and more things to be grateful for every day.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Day
  • Find
  • Grateful

• Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Real
  • Love
  • Experience

• How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

  

  Barbara Pym
  • Love
  • Should
  • Try

• I sing around the house, in the shower.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • House
  • Sing
  • Shower

• A runner needs not just to be skinny but - more specifically - to have skinny calves and ankles, because every extra pound carried on your extremities costs more than a pound carried on your torso. That's why shaving even a few ounces off a pair of running shoes can have a significant effect.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Why
  • Running
  • Shoes

• I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • New York
  • Dumb
  • Nervous

• I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • World
  • Citizen
  • Ukraine

• I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Love
  • May

• As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my God, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'

  

  Rafe Spall
  • God
  • Me
  • Cool

• I didn't intend to be an actress. It was one of many things I was interested in, and it just took off. I was an actress between the ages of 18 and 22, and it was a wonderful, fun thing to do, but it wasn't what I intended long term. I parked acting a long time ago.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Time
  • Long
  • Fun

• But I, you know, if I could choose a period to go back to, I think I would like to live through the Blitz. 'Cause you do read so many accounts of people saying they're living their lives at such an intense pitch that it was a completely different way of living.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • Use
  • Wishes
  • Wanting

• When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from preventable causes, which has got to stop.

  

  Kajol
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Stop

• We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Up
  • Dark
  • Ears

• Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • Trust
  • Dry

• 'Returnless risk' is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
  • Risk
  • Retirement

• I found the most convincing part to be the working stiffs, the guys who have a modest home and kids who go to public schools. They make $75,000 to $100,000 a year. That's not much to live on. I don't have to tell you that.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Live
  • Home
  • Kids

• The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Long
  • Wise
  • Fool

• I have really sensitive skin, so all I use is Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser and Moisturizing Cream, and then during the day, I'll use CeraVe with SPF, but nothing crazy. My skin also gets really dry, so I do a mask from time to time - or if my skin is feeling dull, then I'll put one on.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Day

• I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way corners with a few monstrous priests to keep them alive. Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • People
  • She
  • Age

• Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.

  

  Simon Van Booy
  • Mean
  • Years
  • Inside

• I was Google's first woman engineer.

  

  Marissa Mayer