Linus Torvalds Quotes

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

Linus Torvalds

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• I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Improve
  • Manners
  • Sugar

• My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • American
  • Parents

• Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • World
  • Differences
  • Very

• I like to add something unusual to a dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Like
  • Something
  • Unusual

• I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Better

• Gods always love the people who make em.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Love
  • Always

• When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Time
  • Want
  • Free

• Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Enthusiasm
  • Negativity

• I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Friends
  • Me
  • Page

• I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter. The conductor would just rip into me, and it lasted for years.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Women
  • Love
  • College

• I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Time
  • Long
  • Father

• He wasn't interested in meeting the kind of women who would come to one of those places looking for the kind of man who hoped to meet a woman there.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Women

• Don't Cry Darling, It's Blood All Right

  

  Ogden Nash

• Oh, Amos Cottle! Phœbus! what a name!

  

  Lord Byron

• Sir, I just think that's it's fucking brilliant that you somehow managed to tie Chuck Norris, Chewbacca the Wookie, and Jesus Christ together.

  

  Kevin Smith
  • Together
  • Jesus

• California, California Soon I'll be with you watching your sunset in the evening Movies and show plays, beaches and free ways California, from my home I'll be leaving

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Home
  • Free
  • Leaving

• From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated-ever.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • People
  • Time
  • May

• A man's home is his wife's castle.

  Alexander Chase
  • Home
  • Wife

• First, one scrambles for wealth. Then, one luxuriates in mocking the effeteness that comes with it.

  

  Euny Hong
  • Wealth
  • Scramble
  • Mocking

• 'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Up
  • America
  • Mountain

• I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Beginning
  • Understand
  • Moss

• When a belief vanishes, there survives it -- more and more vigorously so as to cloak the absence of the power, now lost to us, of imparting reality to new things -- a fetishistic attachment to the old things which it did once animate, as if it was in them and not in ourselves that the divine spark resided, and as if our present incredulity had a contingent cause -- the death of the gods.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Reality
  • Belief
  • Gods

• Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

  

  Linus Torvalds