Eva Hoffman Quotes
There is the great ocean below, and the great sky above, and nothing between me and pure possibility.Eva Hoffman
Quotes to Explore
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
Ibrahim Babangida -
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky -
A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
Nathan Fielder -
People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
Zaha Hadid -
There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
A.J. Styles -
There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
Kate Thompson
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Everyone's curves fall in a different place. But you can't put something of mine on and not see curves.
L'Wren Scott -
I am resigned to the fact that people who don't know me loathe me. Perhaps it is because I am a woman writing poetry. It must be annoying to a man who wants to write to see this horrid old lady who can.
Edith Sitwell -
Although the capacity to become schizophrenic may well be within all of us, there is no question that certain persons have distinctive genes predisposing them to the condition.
E. O. Wilson -
It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
Larry Wall -
If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.
Marcus Brigstocke -
I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs.
Albert Einstein
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We made a completely new kind of transistor (the NPN BJT, and in our development work, our researcher, Leo Esaki, demonstrated the electron tunneling effect, which led to the development of the tunnel diode for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize seventeen years later, after he had joined IBM.
Akio Morita -
I started reading DC stuff much later in my life. You realize that there's a huge difference between the Marvel universe and the DC universe and the characters that own it.
David Harewood -
I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.
Paul Westerberg The Replacements -
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Chanakya -
I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service.
Fritz Hollings -
I love my mother a not-normal amount.
Mary H.K. Choi
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With this new stupid Supreme Court ruling, secret money can come in on an unlimited level from corporations. Nobody knows where it comes from. That distorts the political situation in our country tremendously. Most of that money is spent on negative advertising that is tearing down the character and reputation of your opponent, and it works, although most American people say, "We don't like negative advertising," it works.
Jimmy Carter -
You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.
Oprah Winfrey -
Every situation can be substantially improved; even the sky is not the limit.
Eliyahu Goldratt -
But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know that they all were?
Joanne Rowling -
There is the great ocean below, and the great sky above, and nothing between me and pure possibility.
Eva Hoffman