Khosla Ventures Quotes & Sayings

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous. — Jerome K. Jerome

I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything. — Kurt Vile

Game developers know that people have more fun when they're in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are more epic. — Jane McGonigal

Because I am loved like this, even if there is only one fan left in the end, I want to keep singing for this deep love. — Yixing Zhang

The clairvoyant is simply a man who develops within himself the power to respond to another octave out of the stupendous gamut of possible vibrations, and so enables himself to see more of the world around him than those of more limited perception. — Charles Webster Leadbeater

There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable. — Tamsin Greig

All children blackmail their parents with their innocence. — Joanne Greenberg

Margaret laughed. "Sure thing. Sorry, Ave. I'll go and get the tea." Ave. If Avice had been feeling less awful, she would have corrected her: there was nothing worse than an abbreviated name. — Jojo Moyes

I wore a black suit and a white shirt, a black tie and black shoes, all polished and shiny: clothes that normally would make me feel uncomfortable, as if I were in a stolen uniform, or pretending to be an adult. Today they gave me comfort of a kind. I was wearing the right clothes for a hard day. — Neil Gaiman

New York is kind of a mythological city in may ways. — Paul Dano

I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was. — Geri Halliwell

You dear women, I say thanks to you. Thank you for being the kind of people you are and doing the things you do. — Gordon B. Hinckley

New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den. — Zubin Mehta

We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical risks that nobody else will. — Vinod Khosla

How thin the air felt at the forest's edge, how ghostly the trees that guarded their realm ... The whole world seemed as delicate as a dandelion seed, and as fleeting ... How sad to know that the figment village of my imagination would not vanish when I ended, to understand that it was not I who had invented the moon the first time I realized how lovely it was. To admit that it was not my breath that made the winds blow ... [M]y heart, my heart knew that when I closed my eyes I invented the night sky and the stars too. Wasn't the whole dome of the sky the same shape as the inside of my skull? Didn't I create the sun and the day when I raised my eyelids every morning? — Martine Leavitt