Originator Success Quotes & Sayings

I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should. — Sarah McLachlan

We were not finished yet, not even close. I could still smell her. I remembered what she felt like. What she tasted like. This wasn't a casual sexual thing. This was a mating. I would have Kate as my mate. Whatever it took, no matter how long, she would be with me. — Ilona Andrews

It's the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product. IBM didn't invent the computer; Sperry Rand did. But IBM was the first to build the computer position in the prospect's mind. — Al Ries

St. Augustine is not only the oldest continuously-occupied European settlement on the American continent, it is also perhaps the most haunted city in the United States. Seemingly every spot in this city has some ghostly hidden history, right below the surface. Just by strolling through the historic streets you can hear the whispers of the long-dead. — James Caskey

Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets. — Dylan Moran

Sometimes you need to be awkward to beat awkwardness — Charlie Flynn

You can't say you're going to jump the Grand Canyon and then jump some other canyon. — Evel Knievel

If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys will feel about me. — Shaquille O'Neal

When you think of the former high school football star, you think 6-foot-2, white, meathead as the model for that kind of character. Since I'm not 6-foot-2 or white, I just thought about what I could bring to it. I thought about Smash Williams from 'Friday Night Lights,' like the cocky quarterback, and played around with that. — Donald Glover

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States. — Harri Holkeri

I think we all want to successfully push back the aging process, to deny the aging process. Who among us says, 'Yippee, I'm getting older'? — Jens Voigt

That wildness, that untamed fierceness ... They weren't born of a free heart, but of one that had known despair so complete that living brightly, living violently, was the only way to outrun it. — Sarah J. Maas

One of the saddest things about dying is that it's the only event in my life I won't be able to write about. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped. — David Rakoff