Kovecses Quotes & Sayings

May every young scientist remember and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery. — Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett

We're worth everything — Julie Johnson

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice. — Andre Malraux

What good is all the painstaking work on copy if the headline isn't right? If the headline doesn't stop people, the copy might as well be written in Greek. — John Caples

It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it. — William J. Clinton

There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason. — George Lucas

I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef. — Martin Yan

The family unit is the most important organization in time or in eternity. — Bruce R. McConkie

My best beauty secret is simple: Have the right palette and the right colors and remember, you need so much less makeup than you think. — Jessalyn Gilsig

Quality investing focuses on a company's ability to invest capital at high rates of return: post-tax levels of high-teens (and higher) are possible. Three elements drive corporate cash return on investment: asset turns, profit margins and cash conversion. Asset turns measure how efficiently a company generates sales from additional assets, which can vary greatly depending on the asset intensity of the industry itself; margins reflect the benefits of those incremental sales; and cash conversion reflects a company's working capital intensity and the conservatism of its accounting policies. — Lawrence A. Cunningham

Live long, Love hard, Learn to embrace life, Laugh out loud, and Leap into heaven dancing — Daisy Hinton Davis

But equal treatment in an unequal society could still foster inequality. Because black men were disproportionately incarcerated and black women disproportionately evicted, uniformly denying housing to applicants with recent criminal or eviction records still had an incommensurate impact on African Americans. — Matthew Desmond

(The enemy) laughs at your attempts to fix your own issues with timely words and hard work - tactics that might affect matters for a moment but can't begin to touch his underhanded, cunning efforts down where the root issues lie. — Priscilla Shirer

If you can kill it in the bedroom, chances are you can kill it in the kitchen, too - and studies have shown that men who help out more with the chores have more sex with their wives (really!). We know, gender roles run deep, which is why women in hetero relationships still end up doing the vast majority of the domestic work despite being the breadwinners in two-thirds of American homes, leaving them burned out, resentful, and, nope, not really in the mood. But it doesn't have to be this way - and, in fact, we might want to borrow a page from our LGBTQ sisters and brothers (or those who identify as neither): research shows they split chores, decisions, and finances more evenly — Jessica Bennett

Yet it seems like everyone just wants to follow. — Pierce Brown