Bushnell Quotes & Sayings

What if I'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it? — Candace Bushnell

The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks. — Nolan Bushnell

His mother had become impossible, as, he supposed, all elderly people were when they refused to accept that their lives had to change. — Candace Bushnell

From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder. — Albert Bushnell Hart

In life,there are only four kinds of girls:
The girl who played with fire.
The girl who opened Pandora's Box.
The girl who gave Adam the apple.
And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend. — Candace Bushnell

As long as one refuses to know one's place, there's no telling what one can do in the world. — Candace Bushnell

Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, as if to beat his uncertainty into submission. — Candace Bushnell

Sebastian (Se-bastard) is a Scorpio.. — Candace Bushnell

I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball. — Nolan Bushnell

I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing. — Candace Bushnell

I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me. — Candace Bushnell

Sometimes the best thing to do is to
pretend it didn't happen — Candace Bushnell

The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch. — Albert Bushnell Hart

I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well. — Nolan Bushnell

Atari showed that young people could start big companies. Without that example it would have been harder for Jobs and Bill Gates, and people who came after them, to do what they did. — Nolan Bushnell

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence. — Albert Bushnell Hart

For me, having it all is being paid to write novels. — Candace Bushnell

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.
-Carrie Bradshaw — Candace Bushnell

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place. — Candace Bushnell

I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single people. In New York City, it's 47 percent. When you have that many people who are single, they have a bigger voice and they're more willing to speak and say, 'We're not miserable, we're not sitting at home waiting for Mr. or Ms. Right, we're having a good time.' And I think single people have better friendships. — Candace Bushnell

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out. — Candace Bushnell

I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas. — Candace Bushnell

I really liked it." She covers her mouth in horror.
"If I like sex, do you think it means I can't be a feminist?"
"No." I shake my head. "Because being a feminist
I think it means being in charge of your sexuality. You decide who you want to have sex with. It means not trading your sexuality for ... other things."
"Like marrying some gross guy who you're not in love with just so you can have a nice house with a picket fence."
"Or marrying a rich old geezer. Or a guy who expects you to cook him dinner every night and take care of the children," I say, thinking of Samantha.
"Or a guy who makes you have sex with him whenever he wants, even if you don't," Miranda concludes.
We look at each other in triumph, as if we've finally solved one of the world's great problems. — Candace Bushnell

I can only hope he's an Aries and not a Scorpio. — Candace Bushnell

I've always been a tech-head. — Nolan Bushnell

I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion. — Candace Bushnell

'Pong' hit the fancy. It was sort of the perfect storm of a game which has two players highly social, a game that women could play better than a guy, and sort of an acceptance of this social nature of games in a bar. — Nolan Bushnell

AL ALCORN. Chief engineer at Atari, who designed Pong and hired Jobs. GIL AMELIO. Became CEO of Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Mac intosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs's girlfriend at Homestead High, mother of his daughter Lisa. LISA BRENNAN-JOBS. Daughter of Jobs and Chrisann Brennan, born in 1978; became a writer in New York City. NOLAN BUSHNELL. Founder of Atari and entrepreneurial role model for — Walter Isaacson

I'm certainly not going to put my life on hold for him. — Candace Bushnell

You know what they say: A woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle. — Candace Bushnell

Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it. — Horace Bushnell

No matter what you think you can be, when you're forced to stop and look at where you actually are, it's pretty depressing.
Sometimes, there is no escaping the truth — Candace Bushnell

One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them. — Albert Bushnell Hart

Can liberty be destroyed by the truth? — Nolan Bushnell

I know I have to do the right thing. And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life? Instead, you procrastinate and think about it and put it off and think about it some more until that one little pebble grows into a giant block inside your head. — Candace Bushnell

I can't wait to get out of the house. I can't wait to get out of here. I've been telling myself this all week. The 'getting out of here' part is unspecified, though. Maybe I simply want to get away from life — Candace Bushnell

If a man doesn't ask you to marry him
or at least live with him
after two years, he never will. It means he's only interested in having a good time. — Candace Bushnell

Yow. Guys can be so insecure. — Candace Bushnell

I didn't want it to be this way."
"Yes, you did," she said, "because it is."
"I just want to be with someone normal," he said. "I just want to have a normal life."
"Excuse me," she said.
"You're a little crazy," he said. "You're too old to act the way you do. You've got to grow up. You've got to take care of yourdelf. I'm afraid for you. You can't think that people are going to take care of you all the time. — Candace Bushnell

Every one who has taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it that makes a difference. — Nolan Bushnell

Few characters in history are indispensable. — Albert Bushnell Hart

He still went out nearly every night. I thought, is this what he's going to do when we have the baby? Have I made another terrible mistake with a man? You don't really know a man until you have a child with him. Then you see so much. Is he kind? Is he tolerant? Is he loving? Or is he immature and egotistical and selfish? When you have a child, it can go two ways with your husband: You love him even more, or you lose all respect for him. And if you lose respect, there's no way to get it back ... — Candace Bushnell

Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom! — Candace Bushnell

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character. — Horace Bushnell

Have I become the girl who waits by the phone, hoping it will ring, who asks a friend to dial her number to make sure the phone is working? — Candace Bushnell

I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I drink so much that I can
barely walk ... I'm a fantastic lover
though, and an amazing friend. God
knows I mean well. — Candace Bushnell

Any business that does not innovate will fail over time. — Nolan Bushnell

Nothing is necessary for you in maintaining a Christian life, but just to stay by the helm, and put yourself where the power is. Come unto God, unite yourself to God, and the doing power you have is infinite. — Horace Bushnell

We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life. — Candace Bushnell

I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are. — Nolan Bushnell

I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons. — Candace Bushnell

I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being edited out of importance. — Nolan Bushnell

I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3. — Nolan Bushnell

I want to fix education in the world. As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and then world peace. — Nolan Bushnell

In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory - and I think it's pretty well borne out - is that in the '80s, games got gory, and that lost the women. And then they got complex, and that lost the casual gamer. — Nolan Bushnell

I'd love to design a school. — Nolan Bushnell

Oh I don't plan on getting married. It's a legalized form of prostitution. — Candace Bushnell

I'm glad to see the casual game play coming back now on the Internet, games that aren't violent, that aren't complex that you can sit down and you can have some fun. — Nolan Bushnell

The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way. — Candace Bushnell

That was the wonderful thing about New York: Years of bad blood could be wiped out with a single gesture of friendliness. — Candace Bushnell

I take his hand in mine, running my fingers over the palm. His hands are lovely and lean, and I can't help thinking about those hands on my body. The sexiest part of a man is his hands. — Candace Bushnell

As long as you're neurotic and crazy, he's great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes the problem. — Candace Bushnell

And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future? — Candace Bushnell

Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live; and the most beautiful characters the world has ever seen, have been those who received and lived these precepts without once conceiving their beauty. — Horace Bushnell

It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave. — Candace Bushnell

We hate guys who date more than one woman at a time. I've always believed that what's unacceptable in one sex should, by definition, be unacceptable in the other. — Candace Bushnell

The only way to look at men is like they're electrons. They have all these charges sticking out, and they're always looking for a hole where they can put those charges. — Candace Bushnell

Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions. — Horace Bushnell

Out of all the neighborhoods in Manhattan, Soho in particular had the charged atmosphere of a movie set, populated with passersby who looked like extras from Central Casting, so perfectly did they fit into this environment. There was the feeling of everything being not quite real, or too perfectly cliched to actually be true, and it began to rain in a fine, misty drizzle from a black patent leather sky. — Candace Bushnell

In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very center of your being, there is a fixed element, and that of a kind or degree essentially sovereign. A standard is set up in your very thought, by which a great part of your questions are determined, and about which your otherwise random thoughts may settle into order and law. — Horace Bushnell

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized. — Albert Bushnell Hart

Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place. — Nolan Bushnell

I think in terms of businesses, in terms of things that are really big and marry technology with entertainment. That's where I like to spend my time. — Nolan Bushnell

Engrave this Quote The ultimate inspiration is the deadline. — Nolan Bushnell

Just because someone is a girl doesn't mean she can't be tough and practical and have adventures. That's the way most girls are-until they get around guys. Then guys make them act all stupid. — Candace Bushnell

I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it. — Nolan Bushnell

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher. — Horace Bushnell

Christianity is no mere scheme of doctrine or of ethical practice, but is instead a kind of miracle, a power out of nature and above, descending into it; a historically supernatural movement on the world, that is visibly entered into it, and organized to be an institution in the person of Jesus Christ. — Horace Bushnell

What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs. — Candace Bushnell

Is this better or worse than being married and living in the suburbs? Better or worse? Who can tell? — Candace Bushnell

There's no such thing as writer's block," she proclaimed. "If you can't write it's because you don't have anything to say. Or you're avoiding something. — Candace Bushnell

The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own. — Nolan Bushnell

Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it. — Candace Bushnell

O Thou Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world, what Thou bearest in Thy blessed hands and feet I cannot bear; take it all away. Hide me in the depths of Thy suffering love, mold me to the image of Thy divine passion. — Horace Bushnell

Christ commands you to take up His cross and follow Him, not that He may humble you, or lay some penance upon you, but that you may surrender the low self-will and the feeble pride of your sin, and ascend into the sublime patience of heavenly charity. — Horace Bushnell

When a man goes on a date he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A woman already knows. — Frederick Bushnell "Jack" Ryder

I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore. — Candace Bushnell

It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work for four to six hours a day. There's no magic writing fairy. It's just hard work. — Candace Bushnell

My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.' — Candace Bushnell

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement. — Horace Bushnell

The one thing you have to remember about labels is that they only matter if you let them stick. — Candace Bushnell

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin. — Horace Bushnell

I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn't going to get married. — Candace Bushnell

Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie — Candace Bushnell

We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society. — Nolan Bushnell

People can buy a bottle of gin and drink it at home for about a buck a drink, whereas they are willing to go to a bar and pay 12 bucks for the same cocktail. The difference is that man needs to be social. So I believe that there is a strong demand for games that are social. — Nolan Bushnell

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home. — Candace Bushnell

The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children. — Candace Bushnell

How about keyboards in your mouth? How fast can you type with your tongue? People will think you're just masticating, when you're really talking to your girlfriend. — Nolan Bushnell

I stare up the stars, intensely aware of his body a few inches from mine. If this isn't romance, I don't know what is. — Candace Bushnell