Burov Oblog Quotes & Sayings

When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence. — Sergey Brin

After college, I went to San Francisco and worked as a secretary in a reinsurance company. That was a pretty dismal job. It was a real small place. Guys would come in, and they'd sort of stick out their arms like wings so I could take their coats off. They'd tell me, 'Two,' and I'd put two lumps of sugar in their coffee. — William T. Vollmann

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. — William C. Bryant

I'm one of nine sisters. My parents were dairy farmers in Wisconsin. My father didn't believe in girls doing farm work. Girls did housework, and he hired young men to do farm work. I would have preferred to be outside. — Diane Hendricks

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune. — Thomas Gray

True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them. — Augustus William Hare

The strength of Shevek's personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-defense, was formidable. — Ursula K. Le Guin