Buffon Macaw Quotes & Sayings

There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them. — Seth Godin

Strive to be different. — Tianna Holley

A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub.
(from a letter dated 25 May, 1694) — Isaac Newton

For me style has something to do with your inner attitude towards clothes and the awareness what sits well on yourself. — Matthew Williamson

I am always looking for what I think are original voices. — Lorne Michaels

The Blessed Sacrament is the magnet of souls. There is a mutual attraction between Jesus and the souls of men. Mary drew Him down from heaven. Our nature attracted Him rather than the nature of angels. Our misery caused Him to stoop to our lowness. Even our sins had a sort of attraction for the abundance of His mercy and the predilection of His grace. Our repentance wins Him to us. Our love makes earth a paradise to Him; and our souls lure Him as gold lures the miser, with irresistible fascination — Frederick William Faber

But Mama was so mad at the insurance company that even though he used words like "flaming assholes" she didn't realize till later that he was cussing: she said she thought he was quoting the Psalms. — David James Duncan

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding. — Helen Keller

To know someone loves you just for being you is the greatest feeling in the world. — Tommy Cotton

What I proposed was a computer that would be easy to use, mix text and graphics, and sell for about $1,000. Steve Jobs said that it was a crazy idea, that it would never sell, and we didn't want anything like it. He tried to shoot the project down. — Jef Raskin