John Collison Quotes

One of the really fascinating areas is marketplaces that take advantage of mobile devices. Ridesharing is the obvious example, but that's just the start of it, of selling goods and services with lightweight mobile apps.

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• It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Great
  • Wife

• I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Made

• Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Single

• Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Mountain

• I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I would love to be able to do more movie musicals, in the future.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Movie
  • Future
  • Opportunity

• You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Win
  • Driving
  • Edge

• The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Long
  • Today
  • Jesus

• The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Law
  • Deep

• After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Beautiful
  • Man
  • Wife

• Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat's point of view, shelters would be empty.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • World
  • Cat
  • View

• It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Eyes

• Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Great
  • Interesting

• 'Don't worry about my weight. Fifteen pounds more and I'll be grand. I never felt better in my life. I'm going to lead the league in batting again and maybe I'll make a new home run record.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Life
  • Home
  • Worry

• Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Past
  • Simple

• Now I will have less distraction.

  

  Leonhard Euler

• We are the voices of the wandering wind,Which moan for rest and rest can never find;Lo! as the wind is, so is mortal life,A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.

  

  Edwin Arnold
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Wind

• I'm not good at being a picture-perfect pop star, happy all the time. If I'm having a bad day, I can't pretend. I'm always a bit unhappy, but that's just me. I like dwelling in my sadness.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

  

  Maurice Jarre
  • Relationship
  • Bitter

• I just wondered how things were put together.

  

  Claude Shannon
  • Together
  • Things

• I'm very good at denial.

  

  Alessandro Juliani
  • Good

• So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Up
  • Mountain

• Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Heaven
  • Act
  • Stone

• One of the really fascinating areas is marketplaces that take advantage of mobile devices. Ridesharing is the obvious example, but that's just the start of it, of selling goods and services with lightweight mobile apps.

  

  John Collison