Miles Wideikis Quotes & Sayings

The thing he hadn't realized about success was that success made people boring. Failure also made people boring, but in a different way: failing people were constantly striving for one thing - success. But successful people were also only striving to maintain their success. It was the difference between running and running in place, and although running was boring no matter what, at least the person running was moving, through different scenery and past different vistas. — Hanya Yanagihara

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics. — Ron Reagan

Chapulier's Rule (the law of least resistance). If the machine is not too bright and incapable of reflection, it does whatever you tell it to do. But a smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.
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The Great Mendacitor, for example, for nine years in charge of the Saturn meliorization project, did absolutely nothing on that planet, sending out piles of fake progress reports, invoices, requisition forms, and either bribed his supervisors or kept them in a state of electronic shock. — Stanislaw Lem

Conflict is just another chance for agreement. — Ken Poirot

Most people think its sex, money, and drugs but Hip-Hop is about lyrics, storytelling, and everybody having a different style. That's just another idea of beautiful, being yourself and creating music that represents you and what you like. — Rapsody

She liked to dress well because she thought this made up for plain and ordinary looks. In fact she was prettier than she knew. — Hyeonseo Lee

Shaga: How would you like to die, little man?
Tyrion: In my bed, at the age of eighty with a belly full of wine and a woman's mouth around my cock. — George R R Martin

The United States should get rid of its militias. — Joseph Stalin

A good woman's heart knows no bounds. And love is the most powerful and wondrous gift in the world. Yes, it is. — Dorothea Benton Frank

It must be asked here: why does the patient go on being worried by this that belongs to the past? The answer must be that the original experience of primitive agony cannot get into the past tense unless the ego can first gather it into its own present time experience ... . — Mark Epstein

I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might need a light jacket.
Sometimes I'm the slush that sticks to the bottom of your work pants, but I can easily be the melting snowflakes clinging to your long lashes.
I know that some people like:
sunny and seventy-five,
sunny and seventy-five,
sunny and seventy-five,
but you take me as I am and never
forget to pack an umbrella. — Naomi Shihab Nye

Most people have embarrassing videos of themselves as children. Few have theirs copyrighted by Twentieth Century Fox. — Mara Wilson

My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards. — Marie Dressler

There's so much myth and baloney. Like a 80-year-old man able to manhandle a 300-pounder with his little finger. Ridiculous. Or this matter of breaking bricks and boards wth the edge of your hand. Now I ask you, did you ever see a brick or a board pick a fight with anybody? — Bruce Lee

He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls. — F Scott Fitzgerald