Bolikontor Quotes & Sayings

While a student in McCollum's class, Jobs became friends with a graduate who was the teacher's all-time favorite and a school legend for his wizardry in the class. Stephen Wozniak, whose younger brother had been on a swim team with Jobs, was almost five years older than Jobs and far more knowledgeable about electronics. But emotionally and socially he was still a high school geek. — Walter Isaacson

If it wasn't for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns at the end of your dock."
Daisy put her arm through his abruptly but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to him, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted things had diminished by one. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am. — Anna Lee

Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape. — Ray Stannard Baker

I've felt some great feelings on the baseball field ... in front of 50,000 people and millions on TV ... but the feeling you get when you give a kid a chance, that is a hundred times greater than that feeling. — Cal Ripken Jr.

He though of all the
different ways to make it
look like an accident. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

" ... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was." — Charles De Lint

And another small point, or two actually; Aldus was the first to use the modern semicolon. — Mark Kurlansky

The fact that I'm the reason for that heated look in his eyes makes me feel even more desirable than when I imagine being perfect. — Colleen Hoover