Steve Case (Stephen McConnell Case) Quotes

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

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• I'm not Cinderella.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Cinderella

• History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • Men
  • Important
  • Long

• Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Nothing
  • Talking
  • Someone

• After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Help
  • Energy
  • Working

• Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Hurt

• 'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Never
  • Silent
  • Tyranny

• If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Worst
  • Possible
  • Too

• I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Great
  • Love
  • Yourself

• We must make the government accept that at a time when we are expected to look ahead, we cannot afford to start discriminating against our own people in the name of 'ethos.'

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • Time
  • Government

• They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • People
  • Time
  • Mother

• I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Work
  • Think
  • Sacrifice

• When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • World
  • Looks
  • Him

• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Arts

• Buckwheat, like Marmite and durian, is a seriously divisive foodstuff, so it needs a seriously capable defence team if it's ever going to make it on to most people's dinner tables.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Team
  • Dinner

• There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Mind
  • Write
  • Something

• The more and more I got into writing, the harder and harder it became for me. I still love it, but it became much more problematic than I thought it would be.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • Harder

• What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Life
  • May
  • Culture

• An entrepreneur is not a person who starts a company, but he is the person who actually solves a problem.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Problem
  • Entrepreneur

• For me, an ideal novel is a dialogue between writer and reader, both a collaborative experience and an intimate exchange of emotions and ideas. The reader just might be the most powerful tool in a writer's arsenal.

  

  Jonathan Evison
  • Experience
  • Powerful

• It was a lovely feeling, dying. I can remember being in the hospital, all wired up to tubes and thinking, 'If only you'd take these tubes out, it feels so nice.' It felt so - it felt like being in a bath of velvet. It was such a nice feeling. Everything felt so soft and floppy, and I wanted to go.

  

  Pete Burns
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

  

  Anna Katharine Green
  • Capable
  • Adventures

• All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

  

  Steve Case
  • Ideas
  • Weird
  • Obvious