Lyx Smart Quotes & Sayings

A couple of years ago this guy called Ken Brown wrote a book saying that Linus stole Linux from me It later came out that Microsoft had paid him to do this — Andrew S. Tanenbaum

I feel so unhappy."
I am sure that this one phrase whispered to me would arouse my sympathy more than the longest, most painstaking account of a woman's life. It amazes and astonishes me that I have never once heard a woman make this simple statement. This woman did not say, "I feel so unhappy" in so many words, but something like a silent current of misery an inch wide flowed over the surface of her body. When I lay next to her my body was enveloped in her current, which mingled with my own harsher current of gloom like a "withered leaf settling to rest on the stones at the bottom of a pool." I had freed myself from fear and uneasiness. — Osamu Dazai

If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books. — Jackie French

Anyone who wants to achieve something, needs a lot of work. — Meryl Streep

With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him. — Robert H. Jackson

Come again? I know, I know - that's what Lynch says. — Maggie Stiefvater

Wealth that comes quickly, goeth the same way. — George S. Clason

He would not lose her. If he did, this world would witness his rage and need to send him to his grave to stop it. — Annie Nicholas

I studied opera, and when I left conservatory I told myself I would never sing in public again. — Garth Greenwell

Anything that you have imposed on yourself to be unhappy, to be bound, is a concept. It is an imaginary concept, so give it away. — H.W.L. Poonja

There is nothing like discovering your own secrets in someone else's story. Those thoughts and feelings you believed were too ugly or strange or idealistic or desperate or whimsical or hungry or sad they had to be just you because there could be no other place for them, anywhere. Books that make you realize you're not alone, you never were. Those are the ones I like best. — Courtney Summers

In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA. — Bryant McGill