Linus Torvalds Quotes

It's what I call 'mental masturbation', when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.

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• Drink lots of water and stay hydrated.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Water
  • Drink
  • Stay

• I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.

  

  Rachel True
  • Different
  • Energy
  • Wonder

• Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?

  

  C. V. Raman
  • World
  • Work
  • Friend

• I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Humor
  • Pieces
  • Disregard

• When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Edgy
  • Dressed
  • Mixed

• Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.

  

  Felix de Weldon
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • People
  • Life
  • Know

• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Depth
  • Length

• I'm a 'Bridesmaids' type of girl. I love silliness. That's who I am at heart, and I know I can do it. If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Love

• You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Play
  • Yourself

• I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Professional

• Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Ability
  • For Her

• I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid's body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Up
  • Work
  • Bad

• Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying

• One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Always
  • Mad
  • Others

• The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Right
  • First
  • Questions

• I've always thought that I'm kind of a cross between a young Bill Clinton and Lyle Lovett. And I just want to say I'm proud of that. Those are two good looking guys.

  

  James Badge Dale
  • Good
  • Proud

• I was the girl who did everybody's homework, but I was also, like, student council president and yearbook editor and, like, all-around overachiever. Like, I'm disabled, but I can do anything.

  

  Maysoon Zayid
  • Girl

• Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • World
  • Soul
  • Speech

• My faith doesn’t make me perfect, it makes me forgiven.

  

  Peyton Manning
  • Faith
  • Perfect
  • Forgiven

• At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas, both in film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature's monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • American
  • Film
  • Beauty

• It's what I call 'mental masturbation', when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Exercise