Larry Page Quotes

Have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

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• You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'

  

  RaeLynn
  • Good
  • God
  • True

• My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Different
  • Dream

• This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Birth

• Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Engineer
  • Problem solving

• At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Help
  • Thought
  • Internet

• English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Different
  • Culture
  • English

• I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Love
  • Need
  • Marry

• A lot of people put pressure on me, but I don't think I feel that type of pressure. It is more of a good thing that people are trying to do that.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • People
  • Want
  • Relationship

• Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Law
  • Government
  • Natural

• I have so many other talents other than fighting, and I would love to be able to show those off. I would like to say, 'Yes, I'm a fighter, and I'm this,' or, 'Yes I'm a fighter, but I'm also this.'

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Fighting
  • Like
  • Fighter

• Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

  

  Oliver St. John
  • People
  • Politics
  • Irish

• The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Why
  • Said
  • Week

• I'm not convinced that abstinence-only education works.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Education
  • Works
  • Convinced

• A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Way
  • Environment
  • Place

• I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Government
  • Late
  • November

• I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes

• A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Ideas
  • More
  • Patterns

• Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Passion
  • Star
  • Happiness

• Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

  

  James G. Stavridis

• If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems, I never would have had the guts to write horrendous poems myself. I never would have signed up for Mrs. Safford's poetry class the spring of junior year, which led me to poetry readings, which introduced me to bad red wine, and after that it's all just one big blurry condemned path to journalism and San Francisco.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Spring

• Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Blessed
  • Enemies
  • Brilliant

• Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why.

  

  Jim McKelvey
  • Good
  • Art
  • Why

• Have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

  

  Larry Page