Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

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• I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Friends
  • Pretty
  • Me

• The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • World
  • Live
  • Always

• I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.

  

  T.I.
  • Mind
  • Career
  • Attention

• It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Important
  • Health

• Parts that are desexed, matronly – to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Character
  • Know
  • Fly

• From my experience of shooting 'Tudors' on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Experience
  • Weather
  • Island

• I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Business
  • Want
  • You

• It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Good
  • Why
  • Basketball

• If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Family
  • Matter
  • Find

• As the Spanish proverb says, 'He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Home
  • Knowledge
  • Spanish

• The flames roll'd on­-he would not goWithout his father's word;That father, faint in death below,His voice no longer heard.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Father
  • Death

• Campaign promises are, by long democratic tradition, the least binding form of human commitment.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Long
  • Commitment

• A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Shadow

• 中醫不過是一種有意的或無意的騙子。

  

  Lu Xun

• Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Work
  • Political
  • Religious

• 'Red vs Blue' as a show has evolved dramatically. It looks an entirely different show to what we started with, but the format of the show has changed so much over the years, too.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Different
  • Red
  • Blue

• Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation.

  

  Joe Murray

• When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person.

  

  W. Kamau Bell
  • People
  • Black
  • Pride

• I go all over the place. I do like the ability to go around the company at different levels to find the people that have the actual answers to the question.

  

  Mark V. Hurd
  • People
  • Different
  • Question

• Peggy chose her words to be true, and therefore beautiful, and therefore good.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • True
  • Beautiful

• Look at who people are elevating and deifying in the public eye, and ask yourself what those people have done to receive such lauding and what it is they haven't. When you look at that you say, okay, are these people being revered for something of merit, or are they completely hallow? Or even worse, are they being revered for something that is actually destructive?

  

  David Paden Marchand AFI
  • People
  • Done
  • Eye

• Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Anger
  • Suffer
  • Euphoria

• C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

  

  Bjarne Stroustrup