David Boies Quotes

Obviously I'm a lawyer; I like to have cases.

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• Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Life
  • Band
  • Like

• If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Nature
  • Words
  • Opinion

• On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • World
  • Children
  • New York

• I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Want
  • Because
  • Patient

• I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • World
  • Love
  • Science

• Moonlight is sculpture.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Sculpture
  • Moonlight

• In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • School
  • Year
  • Looking Back

• You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • Country
  • Help

• Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • People
  • America
  • Opportunities

• The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • People
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• I don't have the confidence to be a personality.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Confidence
  • Personality

• All the social things the consumer has gotten used to are being applied to business.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Business
  • Being
  • Consumer

• Everyone at the Hayholt had seemed obsessed with the empty ritual of power, something Miriamele had lived with for so long that it held no interest for her. It was like watching a confusing game played by bad-tempered children.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Long
  • Children
  • Power

• One of those creatures wrote you once, ‘do not call up any that you can not put down’.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Up

• Travel within thyself! The Stone Philosophers with wisest arts Have vainly sought, cannot be found By travelling in foreign parts.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Travel

• God far exceeds all words that we can here express In silence He is heard, in silence worshiped best

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God
  • Words
  • Silence

• When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Emotional
  • Habit
  • Search

• Hey mama, don't you treat me wrong,Come and love your daddy all night long.All right now, hey hey, all right.See the girl with the diamond ring;She knows how to shake that thing.All right now now now, hey hey, hey hey.Tell your mama, tell your pa,I'm gonna send you back to Arkansas.Oh yes, ma'm, you don't do right, don't do right.

  

  Ray Charles
  • Long
  • She
  • Night

• My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second, at Flatiron, was Internet to bubble. And the third, at USV, has been web 2 to mobile. I have always used a new firm to denote a new investment phase for me. Throw away the old. Start with the new.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Long
  • Career

• When people see a Spanish last name, they have an image in their head of what the typical Latina looks like. I think it's important on television to have different representations of people. And I'm so proud of being Latina. I love it.

  

  Kether Donohue
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• Problems can be experienced as... a chance for renewal rather than stress.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson
  • Stress

• I like Doritos. I'm usually watching 'The Biggest Loser' eating Doritos.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Eating
  • Watching
  • Loser

• I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Small
  • Water
  • Bird

• Obviously I'm a lawyer; I like to have cases.

  

  David Boies
  • Lawyer