David Mackay Quotes

When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

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• When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
  • Up
  • Mom

• I think of OkCupid as an online bar; a place where singles can go, have fun with each other and in the process hopefully meet new people, some of whom might turn into a romantic relationship.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Fun
  • Relationship

• I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • History
  • Amazing
  • Idea

• I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • World
  • Thought
  • Design

• Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Space

• 'Halal in the Family' will expose a broad audience to some of the realities of being Muslim in America. By using satire, we will encourage people to reconsider their assumptions about Muslims, while providing a balm to those experiencing anti-Muslim bias. I also hope those Uncles and Aunties out there will crack a smile!

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Family
  • America

• It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Funny

• Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Kids
  • Military
  • Thought

• One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Health
  • Focus
  • Quality

• When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • You
  • Strategy
  • Investment

• Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Mirror
  • Grateful
  • Thankful

• And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Why
  • Want
  • Woman

• My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Life
  • War
  • My Life

• By the time I got involved, Blockbuster had already worked out some of the kinks.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Time
  • Involved
  • Got

• What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Me
  • Public
  • Glory

• Cotton Mather is one of those classic figures of American history who can't be left out. One has to explain him or explain him away, redeem him or denounce him.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • American
  • History
  • Cotton

• Nothing embitters my old age like the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Men
  • Age

• Everybody's a nun.

  

  J. D. Salinger

• The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Earth
  • Moon
  • Shadow

• You are holy, great and mighty, the moon and the stars DECLARE who You are...I'm so unworthy, but still You love me, forever my heart will sing of how great You are!

  

  Phil Wickham
  • Heart
  • Forever
  • Moon

• When you look around Silicon Valley at new companies, there are very few ideas that are going to make a dent in the universe.

  

  Brad Garlinghouse
  • Universe

• I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Understood
  • Don't Think
  • Emotional Level

• When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • World
  • Words
  • Change

• When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

  

  David Mackay
  • Moon