Exhalation By Ted Quotes & Sayings

No longer was she an heiress from another world; she was the woman he had wanted to possess the moment he saw her, and she was sitting beside him, her hair cascading over his arm like a thick satin waterfall — Judith McNaught

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical. — Bill Gates

America is a song that sounds the best when we all sing together - at least for a while. — Michael Josephson

I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it. — Alison Krauss

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought. — H. Rider Haggard

It's really hard when people write nasty things about you all the time. As much as good things are said about you, it's always those one or two bad comments that really stay with you and gnaw at you. I try not to read that stuff if I can. — Jordin Sparks

Our universe might have slid into equilibrium emitting nothing more than a quiet hiss. The fact that it spawned such plenitude is a miracle, one that is matched only by your universe giving rise to you. — Ted Chang

Did he not know that there was a lower point, yet, when you had accepted your own fate but found yourself too weak to go through with it? The point at which you understood you had made not a single ripple in the pond, and neither would your loss. — Lori Rader-Day

The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did ... until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on. — Ted Chiang

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves. — Gore Vidal

Know thyself. Know the customer. Innovate. — Beth Comstock

Destroying hope is a critically important project. And when it is achieved, formal democracy is allowed - even preferred, if only for public relation purposes. In more honest circles, much of this is conceded. Of course, it is understood much more profoundly by beasts in men's shapes who endure the consequences of challenging the imperatives of stability and order. — Noam Chomsky

After my head has been chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment , the sound of my own blood gushing from my neck? That would be the best pleasure to end all pleasure. — Peter Kurten