Der Beck Quotes & Sayings

Finally, people have to actually purchase it. It doesn't matter how good a product is if, in the end, nobody uses it. — Donald A. Norman

Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers. — David Parnas

The most powerful presence in the room is his absence. — Claudia Gray

don't walk away from someone you love. Ever. — Susan Fanetti

For humans as well as for ships, dark stormy nights are better teachers than tranquil sunny days. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee. — Ted Yoho

I love Joan Didion, but I love her writing. I don't think meeting her could solve my problems or make me understand the world better. — John Darnielle

Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice. — Anna Godbersen

I think it's important that we run that tension between the way things are, in terms of the way we're governed, and the way we sort of become complacent. — Adrian Grenier

I don't try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers. Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time. — Agnes Varda

As we look around us
At our mortal side and sigh
Remember a place called Wingsong
Then, Lift your Wings and Fly — Stephen Cosgrove

The truth will form and fall apart again. — Sarah Slean

[On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents ... — Dorothy Parker

If Jesus was a baby, there was a point, on that Holiest of nights, in that Holiest of mangers, where he made a big, Holy load. — Dana Gould