Joe Starret Quotes & Sayings

They did not look at each other. They did not say a word to each other... They knew that talk is meaningless when a common knowledge is already there. The silence bound them as no words ever could. — Jack Schaefer

Software engineers are apparently not supposed to have a social or family life. — David J. Anderson

People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does not like bad news. — Tom Brokaw

All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery. — Marian Engel

When you're writing what you love, it's the most fun you can have with your clothing still on, unless of course, you write naked. — Don Roff

Steve wanted people to love Apple," says Cook, "not just work for Apple, but really love Apple, and really understand at a very deep level what Apple was about, about the values of the company. He didn't write them on the walls and make posters out of them anymore, but he wanted people to understand them. He wanted people to work for a greater cause. — Brent Schlender

Ernie's past friendship. Your debt is to the living. — Jack Schaefer

Listen, Bob. A gun is just a tool. No better and no worse than any other tool, a shovel- or an axe or a saddle or a stove or anything. Think of it always that way. A gun is as good- and as bad- as the man who carries it. Remember that. — Jack Schaefer

In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition. — Salman Rushdie

People will not remember what you say. People will not remember what you do. They will always remember how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou... — Mollie Bickle Cardwell

If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself. — Saint Augustine

I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth exploding ... and my only thought was that I wanted you to see them, too. — Douglas Coupland

To survive, the people in neighborhoods are going to have to secede. — Karl Hess

My childhood is a part of my story, and it's why I'm who I am today and why my career is what it is. — Misty Copeland

Sometimes, the best thing we can change about a situation is our perspective. — Joan Gable