Nicklas Backstrom Quotes & Sayings

Revolution used to be cool, but now it's out of fashion. — Ray Davies

How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood. — Martin Luther

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world. — Don DeLillo

I do not employ tricks when I attack. — Max Immelmann

In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?" — Benjamin Franklin

You need to set near-term milestones. Put the assumptions down on paper, and make it to your vision or ultimate product. Your team has to understand where they're going. Your partners need to understand where they're going. — Tony Fadell

You make the mistake of considering Christianity as something that developed over the course of a few years, from the death of Jesus to the time the gospels were written. But Christianity wasn't new. Only the name was new. Christianity was merely a stage in the meeting, cross-fertilization, metamorphosis of Western logic and Eastern mysticism. Look how the religion itself changed over the centuries, reinterpreting itself to meet changing times. Christianity is just a new name for a conglomeration of old myths and philosophies. All the gospels do is retell the sun myth and garble some of the ideas from the Greeks and Romans. — Michael Moorcock

What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency. — Randy Newman

Once I opened up a fortune cookie and inside was the guy's cheque next to me I said hey buddy I got your cheque he said thanks. — Rodney Dangerfield

Freedom is the atmosphere in which humanity thrives. Breathe it in. — Richelle E. Goodrich

You have to make people realize your worth, else no one cares! — Anamika Mishra

The exploitation agenda advocated by liberals is modeled after the dependency-inducing design of the drug dealer's business model: "We'll supply the first hit for free, and after that, you'll need us forever in order to survive." In order for the liberal scheme to succeed, all attempts at self-empowerment or individual initiative are to be met with fierce resistance and social sanction. — Angela McGlowan

William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly descending toward him. When he reached the bottom, his father walked over, looked him in the eye and said: "You know those poems you're writing? They're no good." — Eliot Weinberger