Hyndeboks Quotes & Sayings

The objective of producing useful devices has strongly influenced the choice of the research projects with which I have been associated. — William Shockley

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers. — Madame De Stael

We do our friends no favors by pretending not to notice flaws in their work, especially when those who are not their friends are bound to notice these same flaws. — Sam Harris

There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference. — Yasmin Mogahed

Politics exist in the boardroom, as well. — Carly Fiorina

Since we had always sky about,
when we had eagles they flew out
leaving no shadow bigger then wrens'
to trouble our most aeromantic hens.
Too busy bridging loneliness to be alone
we hacked in ties what Emily etched in bone.
We French, we English, never lost our civil war,
Endure it still, a bloodless civil bore;
No wounded lying about, no Whitman wanted.
It's only by our lack of ghosts we're haunted. — Earle Birney

Just being alive is such a gift, but nobody ever told you to be thankful to existence. On the contrary, everyone was grumpy, complaining. Naturally, if everything surrounding your life from the very beginning goes on pointing out to you that you are not what you should be, goes on giving you great ideals that you have to follow and you have to become, your isness is never praised. What is praised is your future - if you can become someone respectable, powerful, rich, intellectual, in some way famous, not just a nobody. — Osho

Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying. — Bruce Eric Kaplan