Ken Thompson Quotes

Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.

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• I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Think
  • Player
  • Confidence

• You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.

  

  Ice T
  • Kind
  • Hip Hop
  • DJ

• When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Training

• I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Time
  • School
  • Model

• It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Me
  • Years
  • Drafts

• My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Parents
  • Brother
  • Lawyer

• I think everyone evolves over the years, but I have always had the silhouette that I know suits me. I am never going to wear a frothy, poufy thing that sticks out because I have found a style that works for me, and I stick with it.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Style
  • Suits
  • Stick

• I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Want
  • Matter

• Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • People
  • Good
  • Care

• You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Up
  • Change
  • Grow

• Anyone who wants to be part of the political process should adopt values that are compatible with democracy.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Political
  • Democracy
  • Values

• Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Funny
  • Red
  • Blue

• Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I didn't see any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Understand
  • Young
  • Social

• Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Worry
  • Legacy
  • Going

• Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Men
  • Business

• A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Real
  • Peace
  • Process

• Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Age
  • Take
  • Tragic

• 'Is it different, then, for men and for women?''What isn’t, dearie?'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Boxing distills and illuminates the essence of an athlete. There's nowhere to hide. Boxers live and perform at the extremes. They provide us with answers about a given contest, but more important, they ask us fundamental questions about human narratives. What does this person really stand for? How far will he go to defend it?

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Important
  • Live
  • Athlete

• Everyone should be talking to each other to find out why they have the views that they do instead of just getting on Facebook and yelling at each other. Nobody really, really talks. They don't listen.

  

  David Thibodeau
  • Why

• When you're an adult designer, you're either running a business, or you're helping someone else's business run. Either way, that's a lot of pressure.

  

  Christian Siriano
  • Business
  • Running

• Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Great
  • Death

• Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.

  

  Ken Thompson