File Cards Quotes & Sayings

And I know when you're a teenager everybody feels different and alien to the other people around them but there seems to be an added dimension when you're queer. It's because for that period of time you're more isolated than anybody else and you truly think you are the only one of your kind. So you create fantastic barriers and defence strategies for yourself to survive. And when you get older and realise that you can take them down it's an internal and eternal struggle to do so. Fear is the best anti-motivator in the world. — Sean Kennedy

The Russian-born novelist's writing habits were famously peculiar. Beginning in 1950, he composed first drafts in pencil on ruled index cards, which he stored in long file boxes. Since Nabokov claimed, he pictured an entire novel in complete form before he began writing it, this method allowed him to compose passages out of sequence, in whatever order he pleased... — Mason Currey

Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying 'greeting cards' attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors. — Douglas Rushkoff

Diana and I are thinking seriously of promising each other that we will never marry but be nice old maids and live together forever. Diana hasn't quite made up her mind though, because she thinks perhaps it would be nobler to marry some wild, dashing, wicked young man and reform him. — L.M. Montgomery

I believe we can solve anything. I believe people working together can lift everybody. — John Kasich

This was what I'd always wanted . . . only now I understood the meaning behind the old curse, "May your every wish be granted. — Heidi Heilig

Father emptied a card file for Margot and me and filled it with index cards that are blank on one side. This is to become our reading file, in which Margot and I are supposed to note down the books we've read, the author and the date. — Anne Frank

There will be no conversation in which you call me a racist, and I explain why I'm not a racist. That's a conversation for idiots. — Ben Shapiro

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well. — Bill Gates

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens ... — Jeremy Taylor

I love lists. Always have. when I was 14, I wrote down every dirty word I knew on file cards and placed them in alphabetical order. I have a thing about about collections, and a list is a collection with purchase. (Wired Magazine, "Step One: Make a List", October 2012) — Adam Savage

People like Jeff Buckley, the Mars Volta and Bjork made me listen to music differently. You learn the voice is an instrument you can do crazy things with. — Kimbra

Huh, Kelsier thought. He holds the powers of creation in twain, a god among gods. And he's still a terrible liar. — Brandon Sanderson

Your true image is not something to get; it is a reality to discover. — Eric Butterworth

I wrote '#GIRLBOSS' while running a $100 million-plus revenue business. — Sophia Amoruso