Marissa Mayer Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
-
Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
-
I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
-
I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
-
Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.
-
My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
-
I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
-
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
-
One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.
-
The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.
-
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
-
Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
-
I just want a big HBO special or a network or somebody willing to get behind my work and promote it. The most frustrating thing for me is to have this successful act that resonates across the country, and the network guys just don't get it. Everyone sees it except them. I want to leave a mark.
-
I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.
-
There are people we look up to, like Lady Gaga and what she's built. She's not afraid to own who she is.
-
Anybody can have this body if you do enough sit-ups and you just make a decision that 'Every day, I'm going to work out.' There are some days that I just don't feel like doing it, and I don't. But more often than not I get up and I get on the treadmill that I want to shoot and just do it. The first 20 minutes are the hardest.
-
At the earliest ending of winter, In March, a scrawny cry from outside Seemed like a sound in his mind. He knew that he heard it, A bird's cry, at daylight or before, In the early March wind.
-
Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.
-
The challenge of directing and interviewing helped me with confidence, and I learnt so much. If I hadn't had the brain hemorrhage, I might never have done it.
-
My first ever-ever professional role was in a television show in England called 'Love Soup.' It starred Tamsin Greig. I just played a small role - I think officially my role was 'teenage boy' - it was one episode.
-
I would never really listen to my own music or whatever, but I write music so I can deal with things and I hope that some people can relate in that. Maybe help people, or just bring a smile to their face or make them feel cool or something.
-
I don't feel overwhelmed with information. I really like it.
