Downright Crossword Quotes & Sayings

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state. — John Ousterhout

There is usually an 'X factor' that is hard to define. For HTC, I think it is our culture. We embrace the best of our Eastern roots and combine it with the best of the Western cultures where we have leadership and offices. It makes the culture colorful as well as energetic and creative. — Cher Wang

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet. — Robert H. Schuller

As a creator, you can design any sort of jewelry that you like for the inside of other people's minds (or simply for the inside of your own mind). You can make work that's provocative, aggressive, sacred, edgy, traditional, earnest, devastating, entertaining, brutal, fanciful . . . but when all is said and done, it's still just intracranial jewelry-making. It's still just decoration. And that's glorious. — Elizabeth Gilbert

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast. — Marie L'Esperance

Every individual, like a statue, develops in his life the laws of harmony, integrity, and freedom; or those of deformity, immorality, and bondage. Whether we wish to or not, we are all drawing our own pictures in the lives we are living ... — Harriot Kezia Hunt

Dorothy did not feel nearly so bad as you might think a little girl who had been so suddenly whisked away from her own country and set down in the middle of a strange land — L. Frank Baum

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness. — Alexander Smith

First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy. — Milos Forman

There can be no peace without unity. — Bashar Al-Assad

Since we're keeping it primal, you smell good," he observed.
"It's called a shower ... ," I began automatically, then trailed off. My memory snagged, taken aback by a compelling and forceful sense of undue familiarity. "Soap, shampoo, hot water," I added, almost as an afterthought.
"Naked. I know the drill," Jev said, something unreadeble passing over his eyes. — Becca Fitzpatrick

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. — Henry David Thoreau