Gene Spafford Quotes

Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.

Gene Spafford

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• I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Explosions are not comfortable.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Comfortable
  • Explosions

• The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Song
  • Me
  • Innocent

• I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Trying
  • Career
  • Choices

• I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Great
  • Moving

• If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Writer

• Try to devote the percentage of time for each club that you're going to be using on the golf course. I like to have two or three different clubs that I practice with, not four or five.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • Different
  • Practice

• Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • America
  • Community
  • Destiny

• There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, man can save the world.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Time
  • World
  • May

• My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Fashion
  • Sister
  • Magazines

• I've never done anything half-heartedly. It's the reason my comics did well. It's the reason my comics were drawn well. I can't do anything bad.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Reason

• You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Christ

• I find that a lot of times when family members get bronchitis or the flu or something like that, I'll kind of skate through and be really lucky and not get that sick.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • Family
  • Sick

• Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Writing
  • Leaving

• When it comes to the Federal Reserve, there's an awful lot of books out there; in my library, I bet I've got 200 books if I've got any on the Federal Reserve. And we don't need any more books, we need action, and that's what the Liberty Dollar did, it gave people a way to take action. Our catch phrase was you want to "make money, do good, and have fun," and people really responded to that.

  

  Bernard von NotHaus
  • Action
  • Books
  • Library

• Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Creative

• At the Department of Justice, our ability to fulfill our responsibilities - to advocate for victims, to vigorously pursue misconduct, to seek justice in all its forms - depends on public confidence in the institutions we represent.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Justice
  • Confidence
  • Ability

• To iterate is human, to recurse divine.

  

  L Peter Deutsch
  • Technology
  • Computer
  • Divine

• Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.

  

  Gene Spafford
  • Ability
  • Sense
  • Computer