Cercana En Quotes & Sayings

We do not take into account the value of the stream. We see the number of streams as a measure of consumer demand, not the value. As it is, we think streams are under-monetized, and we are complaining loudly about that. If the value of a stream changes, we won't alter the count because we don't want to alter the history of the program because that would impact these milestone achievements. — Cary Sherman

Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker. — Isaiah Berlin

Women, in his experience, often expected you to understand that it was a measure of how much they loved you that they tried their damnedest to change you. — Robert Galbraith

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us. — Bhumibol Adulyadej

We foolishly did not realize Saddam was stupid. — April Glaspie

Somehow, irresistibly, the prime thing was: nothing mattered. Life in the end seemed a prank of such size you could only stand off at this end of the corridor to note its meaningless length and it's quite unnecessary height, a mountain built to such ridiculous immensities you were dwarfed in its shadow and mocking of its pomp. — Ray Bradbury

I FELL DEEP down in there, until this bright light raised me from sleep. Coming out of a pit such as that, you think the bright light could be God or a cop on patrol. — Daniel Woodrell

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects. — Alexis Sanchez

I'd hoped the language might come on its own, the way it comes to babies, but people don't talk to foreigners the way they talk to babies. They don't hypnotize you with bright objects and repeat the same words over and over, handing out little treats when you finally say "potty" or "wawa." It got to the point where I'd see a baby in the bakery or grocery store and instinctively ball up my fists, jealous over how easy he had it. I wanted to lie in a French crib and start from scratch, learning the language from the ground floor up. I wanted to be a baby, but instead, I was an adult who talked like one, a spooky man-child demanding more than his fair share of attention.
Rather than admit defeat, I decided to change my goals. I told myself that I'd never really cared about learning the language. My main priority was to get the house in shape. The verbs would come in due time, but until then I needed a comfortable place to hide. — David Sedaris