Linus Torvalds Quotes

Toto, I don't think we're talking white-socks-and-sandals any more.

Linus Torvalds

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• Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Feel
  • Glamorous
  • Lingerie

• I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Life
  • Moving
  • Moving On

• Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Parent
  • Loss
  • Prepare

• For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Team
  • Winning
  • Baseball

• Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Football
  • Group
  • Leg

• I spent a lot of time between bars like this.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Time
  • Like
  • Bars

• You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Together
  • Player
  • Animal

• It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

  

  E. B. White
  • Man
  • Planet
  • Club

• I have always wanted to be liked and respected.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Liked

• My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • Mother
  • Me

• Those who own much have much to fear.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Fear
  • Own
  • Those

• No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Books
  • Feedback
  • Confuses

• I enjoy playing someone who doesn't show up and say, 'This is what I am, and this is what I'm about,' but is someone who, four hours in, makes you go, 'Really? Is that what's going on?'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Enjoy
  • Playing

• By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

  

  O. Henry
  • Nature
  • Habit
  • Choice

• Identification of rhythm as the causal counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Life

• «What we have done, which you did not do, is to deceive people.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy
  • People
  • Done

• With the neutron bomb, which destroys life but not property, capitalism has found the weapon of its dreams.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Life

• ‘…Women I do not much care for myself - I prefer little Greek shepherd-boys…’

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Greek

• Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.

  

  Philipp Dausch Milky Chance
  • Learn
  • Path
  • Stay True

• I think that with marriages, people have to understand that you have to look at your marriage and understand what is needed in your marriage - not what people think your marriage should be or what people want your marriage to be.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • People
  • Marriage

• We are all racers at heart, and what we want to see is out and out racing, and may the quickest man win.

  

  Toto Wolff
  • Heart
  • May
  • Want

• When I found out I had to take off my shirt in 'Teen' movie, I panicked and hit the gym. I was like, 'It's going to be on film, documented, for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle.'

  

  Chris Evans
  • Children
  • Movie
  • Gym

• We are a very youth-driven culture, and I don't really know why because wisdom tends to come with more years, not fewer.

  

  Dede Gardner
  • Why
  • Culture
  • Wisdom

• Toto, I don't think we're talking white-socks-and-sandals any more.

  

  Linus Torvalds