Mark Twain
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
-- Mark Twain
Quotes
Martin Luther King, Jr
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Michael Jordan
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
-- Michael Jordan
Paulo Coelho, Alchemist
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
-- Paulo Coelho, Alchemist
RedGrittyBrick
I find it best to treasure the saints, tolerate the irritable and ignore the whiners.
-- RedGrittyBrick (comp.lang.python)
Richard Hamming
- What are the most important problems in your field?
- Are you working on one of them?
- Why not?
-- Richard Hamming
Robin Williams
"You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it."
-— Robin Williams
Theodore Roosevelt
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
-- Thomas Jefferson