Charles Babbage Quotes

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

Charles Babbage

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• I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Money
  • Job
  • Dream

• Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Problem

• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Great
  • Literature

• I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Feeling
  • Best
  • Planning

• To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Cat

• My second year of college, I started performing comedy at an open mic. It was good to do open mics with the kids. It's a good, safe spot to start, you know?

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Good
  • Kids
  • College

• I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Always

• I do endorse brands: brands that I believe in individually, brands that I use, brands that I am proud to sell. But I wouldn't do that for my films because that's something I do separately. What I do with my films is something I am extremely passionate about.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Films
  • Brand
  • Individually

• Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Words

• When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Better
  • White
  • Stereotypes

• Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Men
  • Different
  • Thinking

• A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
  • Fight
  • Rights

• When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box covered in silver and bits of cellophane. I'd close him up in it and joggle him and say, 'We're in Victorian times now... and now we're in Egyptian times, and I can see all these pyramids and pharaohs.'

  

  Kate Williams
  • Up
  • Time
  • Brother

• If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.

  

  Gayle Gardner
  • Why
  • Want
  • Wonder

• Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Home
  • Car
  • Shoes

• Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • God
  • Envy
  • Pains

• Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Business
  • Despair
  • Passions

• I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren't careers supposed to culminate in a role like that? And because I'm a big fat geek, as long as there's stuff I'm excited about - and isn't that really the definition of geek? - there'll always be roles I'd love to play.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Play
  • Like
  • Careers

• The roughest road often leads to the top.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Road
  • Top

• We still haven't had a district tournament win. I'm still in the process of building the program, and we've got good kids coming up.

  

  Brad Stevens
  • Kids
  • Win
  • Program

• The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

  

  Charles Babbage