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

• Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Great
  • God
  • May

• 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

• I try not to read the stuff online because it's so hurtful and stuff. There was somebody that said I was messing up my genetics by dating my boyfriend because he's not black. It was an interesting thing to read.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Up
  • Black
  • Interesting

• Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

  

  Confucius
  • Way
  • Roots
  • Affairs

• It's pretty sad that when people see a guy buying flowers, they assume he's in trouble.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • People
  • Guy
  • Trouble

• When I walk on stage, it's a release valve for me. Life is stressful anyway, so therefore, when I walk on stage, it releases all those stressful situations, and I feel good about myself.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Life
  • Stage
  • Stressful

• My key to dealing with stress is simple: just stay cool and stay focused.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Simple
  • Cool
  • Stress

• A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack of wisdom, fantasies. At the same time, that's where my creativity can be found. If I tried to control it and make it more mature, it wouldn't be good at all. It'd be uninteresting, without any vivacity.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Time
  • Good
  • Control

• I was Google's first woman engineer.

  

  Marissa Mayer