Mishearings Oliver Quotes & Sayings

In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I felt very much like I was a parent who had to adjudicate the brothers beating each other up. — Pierre Omidyar

No atheism simply falls from heaven. — Eberhard Jungel

Without sense of purpose and clear direction of your life, you will only be building a fake brand of you — Bernard Kelvin Clive

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them. — Jean Cocteau

When one dream burns to ash, you don't crumble beneath it. You get on your hands and knees, and you sift through those ashes until you find the very last ember, the very last spark. Then you breathe. You breathe. You fucking breathe. And you make a new fire. — Sarah Ockler

In real life I'm the type of girl who doesn't take herself too seriously. I'm very serious when it comes to work, but I like to make jokes and have a good laugh and make fun of myself. — Gal Gadot

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true? — Jodi Picoult

She was not a political creature. She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk. — James S.A. Corey

And this time he would have said it, right? I love you. So much. Too much. But that was forbidden. For all time. The Elf would take his heart in payment. — Cornelia Funke

I think life likes to do that every now and again. Every so often it likes to dip and when you feel like you can't take any more it smoothes out again. — Cecelia Ahern

Collins, echoing Ed Catmull, "What separates people is the return on luck, what you do with it when you get it. What matters is how you play the hand you're dealt." He continues, "You don't leave the game, until it's not your choice. Steve Jobs had great luck at arriving at the birth of an industry. Then he had bad luck in getting booted out. But Steve played whatever hand he was dealt to the best of his ability. Sometimes you create the hand, by giving yourself challenges that will make you stronger, where you don't even know what's next. That's the beauty of the story. Steve's almost like the Tom Hanks character in Castaway - just keep breathing because you don't know what the tide will bring in tomorrow. — Brent Schlender

HASSEN: Perhaps I will never get over the shame of disappointment, but it will not destroy me. — Ruby Dixon

It's frightening that skepticism has to be a movement, because you're just arguing that reality is reality. What a waste of energy, in a way — Graham Linehan

In The Dynamics of Creation, Anthony Storr, the British psychiatrist, contends that an individual who "fears love almost as much as he fears hatred" may turn to creative activity not only out of an impulse to experience aesthetic pleasure, or the delight of exercising an active mind, but also to defend himself against anxiety stimulated by conflicting demands for detachment and human contact.21 — Sylvia Nasar

There's no straighter road to success than exceeding expectations one day at a time. — Robin Crow