Mouseburger Quotes & Sayings

The opportunities and threats existing in any situation always exceed the resources needed to exploit the opportunities or avoid the threats. Thus, strategy is essentially a problem of allocating resources. If strategy is to be successful, it must allocate superior resources against a decisive opportunity. — William Cohen

Mouseburger: unpretty, unspecial, unformed. — Lena Dunham

Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent. — T.I.

If you see those pretty things
that nature likes to show
Remember all those seals that sing
And leave them there to grow. — Stephen Cosgrove

All I knew was that she painted a picture of a life made much richer by having once been, as she calls it, a Mouseburger: unpretty, unspecial, unformed. She believed that, ultimately, Mouseburgers are the women who will triumph, having lived to tell the tale of being overlooked and underloved. Hers is a self-serving perspective, but one I needed more than anything. Maybe, as Helen preached, a powerful, confident, and, yes, even sexy woman could be made, not born. Maybe. — Lena Dunham

But it has perks -- personal pride, financial security, and the feeling of accomplishment and control that comes when you just swap in a new toilet paper roll rather than resorting to fast-food napkins. — Kelly Williams Brown

Screens tell you not what is really out there but what the government or Facebook thinks you should see. If you searched for something and it wasn't there, how would you know it really was? To paraphrase an old philosophical question, if a tree falls on the Internet and no search engine indexes it, does it make any noise? As we live our lives increasingly mediated through screens, when it doesn't exist online, it doesn't exist. — Marc Goodman

When Nehemiah's heart was broken he paid attention to his broken heart. — Andy Stanley

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance. — Mike Birbiglia

There is only one thing left for you to do," John Sloan advised one artist. "Pull off your socks and try with your feet. — Ross Wetzsteon

It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you HAVEN'T done. — The Butthole Surfers

Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain-there is nothing in the whole system if laws of physics that cannot be deduced unambiguously from epistemological considerations. An intelligence, unacquainted with our universe, but acquainted with the system of thought by which the human mind interprets to itself the contents of its sensory experience, and should be able to attain all the knowledge of physics that we have attained by experiment. — Arthur Eddington

I had much more fun criticizing than praising. — William F. Buckley Jr.

I think most people are afraid to love because they want the freedom to suffer alone. — Peter Tieryas

If you're a little mouseburger, come with me. I was a mouseburger and I will help you. You're so much more wonderful than you think. Cosmopolitan is shot full of this stuff although outsiders don't realize it. It is, in its way, an inspiration magazine. — Helen Gurley Brown

Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last. — Thomas Sowell

Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift. — William James