Desalvo Quotes & Sayings

When it comes time to protecting the homeland, the United States of America must be right 100 percent of the time. And the enemy, which desires to strike us again, only has to be right once. — George W. Bush

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators. — Igor Stravinsky

Fred Vogelstein summed up iPhone's impact that day in his book Dogfight with a quote by Google engineer Chris DeSalvo: "We're going to have to start over. — Jacquie McNish

It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time. — Khloe Kardashian

I think if we can get people focused to do what we need to do to keep our kids from being stuck with this debt that they didn't accrue, you might be surprised at how far we can move this conversation. — Michael Bennet

What does not kill you will make you stronger and more cynical. — Jessica Zafra

I learned an important lesson: Never take the obvious for granted. Once upon a time, it was so obvious that a four-pound rock would plummet earthward twice as fast as a two-pound rock that no one ever bothered to test it. That is, until Galileo Galilei came along and took ten minutes to perform an elegantly simple experiment that yielded a counterintuitive result and changed the course of history. — V.S. Ramachandran

Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one is getting something ... The truth of the sunshine, the truth of the rain, the truth of the fresh air, the truth of the wind in the trees ... and if we allow ourselves to be benefited by the forms of truth that are readily accessible to us instead of rejecting them as "merely natural," we will be in a better position to profit by higher forms of truth when they come our way. — Thomas Merton

My work has changed my life. My work has saved my life. My life has changed my work. — Louise DeSalvo

What a thing it would have been to see her take a breath. — Dennis Mahoney

If we are really committed, we better get start taking care of our shit. — M.F. Moonzajer

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time. — Billie Jean King

The story about Bessie Goldberg that I heard from my parents was that a nice old lady had been killed down the street and an innocent black man went to prison for the crime. Meanwhile
unknown to anyone
a violent psychopath named Al was working alone at our house all day and probably committed the murder. In our family this story eventually acquired the tidy symbolism of a folk tale. Roy Smith was a stand-in for everything that was decent but utterly defenseless. Albert DeSalvo, of course, was a stand-in for pure random evil. — Sebastian Junger

Through our reading we can travel to other times and other places, into other peoples minds and hearts and souls: it is a transcendent experience. — Louise DeSalvo

Here is an unfenced existance — Philip Larkin

In fact, at times I preferred to live in the forbidden world, and frequently my return home to the bright realm, no matter how necessary and good that might be, was almost like a return to someplace less beautiful, — Hermann Hesse

Let the experience begin! — Frank Gehry

I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. — Louise DeSalvo