Steve Jobs Quotes

I was in the parking lot, with the key in the car, and I thought to myself: If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman? I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she'd have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town, and we've been together ever since.

Steve Jobs

• Earth
• Woman
• Last Night
• Business meeting

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Role

• Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Brazil

• I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Rather

• At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Reading
  • Crazy
  • View

• The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

  

  E. B. White
  • Power
  • Age
  • Man

• Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Music
  • Song
  • Words

• My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

  

  Ed Case
  • Religious
  • Marriage
  • Spiritual

• Certain struggles never end.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Never
  • End
  • Struggles

• Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Better

• Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!

  

  Candice Olson
  • Heart
  • May
  • House

• It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Age
  • Past

• I don't look too far ahead.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Look
  • Far
  • Ahead

• I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than 'Price' - the prizes can be huge, and the whole world loves and watches the show. It's an American institution!

  

  Randy West
  • World
  • American
  • Watches

• All have used the economic opportunity of a new arena project to transform their cities into the future.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Future
  • Opportunity
  • New

• Tempus edax rerum.

  

  Ovid

• Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

• When I didn’t have a family, I was much more of a workaholic … I still like to work, but I also want to be home with them. As you get older, you realize you need balance. If it’s not fun, what’s the point?

  

  Ben Stiller
  • Work
  • Family
  • Home

• The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Good
  • Great
  • Political

• I see the role of the writer as creating a room with big windows and leaving the reader to imagine. It's a meeting on the page.

  

  Kevin Crossley-Holland
  • Leaving

• Creation was not finished at the dawn of this earth, but creation continues, and we have a lot to do to make the world a better place.

  

  George Cadle Price
  • Earth
  • Creation
  • Finished

• They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.

  

  Jim Bakker
  • Car
  • Missing
  • Squad

• The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Freedom
  • Christian
  • Democracy

• I was in the parking lot, with the key in the car, and I thought to myself: If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman? I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she'd have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town, and we've been together ever since.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Earth
  • Woman
  • Last Night