Ngarukiye Daniel Quotes & Sayings

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for. — T.H. White

The average man is not directly interested in politics, and when he reads he wants the current struggles of the world to be translated into a simple story about individuals. — George Orwell

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television. — J.J. Abrams

I often calculate odds on horse races; the civil service computermen frequently program such requests. But the results are so at variance with expectations that I have concluded either that the data is too meager, or the horses or riders are not honest. Possibly all three. — Robert A. Heinlein

When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.' — Hari Kondabolu

Growth hackers resist this temptation (or, more appropriate, this delusion). They opt, deliberately, to attract only the early adopters who make or break new tech services and seek to do it as cheaply as possible. In fact, part of the reason the scrappy start-ups, services, and apps in this book might not always be well-known or topics of daily conversation is because their founders have focused their energies on product development with an eye toward growth - they're now millions of members strong without any superfluous "buzz." They got to mass market by ignoring the urge to appeal to the mass market, at least to start with. — Ryan Holiday

We pick up the pieces, Donna. Some of them are broken. — Dan Abnett

I remembered reading that the sweat and breath of certifiable psychopaths have a subtle but distinctive chemical odor because of certain physiological conditions accompanying that mental disorder. Maybe her breath smelled of craziness. — Dean Koontz

I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film. — Rebecca Hall

I asked each one of them to make out with me and their reactions varied from excitable to horrified. — Rachel Perry

Her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat. — Catherynne M Valente

Take my hand
and ...
feel the sand
beneath your aimless feet
towards the sparkling waves — Munia Khan

To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts - when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break - at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent - I am ever tender and true. (Mr Rochester to Jane) — Charlotte Bronte

A parent can give a child no greater gift than beautiful manners. — Hakim