Jason Fried Quotes
Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.Jason Fried
Quotes to Explore
-
I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.
Yani Tseng -
I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
Maeve Binchy -
Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
Kate Forsyth -
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
Barbara Kingsolver -
It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
Wanda Sykes -
As far as the fouls go, we are not going to rely on anyone else to make the calls for us.
Dan Quinn
-
Tiger Woods was a month away from 34 years of age when his debutantes began turning up in the news. He was a grown man with a wife and two children. Well, we supposed he had a wife, but that was before we learned she was only an ornament.
Dan Jenkins -
Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.
Daniel Dennett -
Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
Ramana Maharshi -
We are not going to sit idly by and permit state actors to go after our information, our private-sector information or our public-sector information.
Hillary Clinton -
When will you women understand that one isn’t insanely in love? All one asks for is a quiet life, which you won’t allow one to have.
Aldous Huxley -
My book or some other book said the judge. What is to be deviates no jot from the book wherein it's writ. How could it? It would be a false book and a false book is no book at all.
Cormac McCarthy
-
I didn't really know what to expect. I had been told about the scale of Cannes, but nothing could have prepared me for just how many people would turn out for our photo calls or for the opening ceremony.
Elizabeth Debicki -
My house is very serious. It's a lot of antiques, and the way I decided to liven it up is, I paired it very vibrant colors and - bugs... I think that they're pretty. And I think that they're fascinating and they're natural.
Emily Procter -
While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before... I never have had to create novels in which those characters not only drive the plot, but also are instrumental in resolving whatever issue the plot deals with.
Elizabeth George -
I'm only stopped by people in uniform, whether it's customs people, janitors, or the FBI - they all watch 'The Wire.' Sadly, beautiful, glamorous women don't know anything about it.
Dominic West -
If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people.
Patti Smith -
Every fish in the ocean is in danger.
Paul Watson
-
I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.
Liz Phair -
I'm remembering one book that I wrote, 'Fourth Grade Rats,' that took a month to write, but most of them, full-length novels, I would say about a year.
Jerry Spinelli -
It's quite clear we've got strong franchises at the core of this company.
John L. Flannery -
Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.
William Shakespeare -
Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.
Jason Fried