Rakataka Quotes & Sayings

It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion. — Leo Tolstoy

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

It was the thought of him that I had problems with, I realised. The reality was really rather desirable. — Dorothy Koomson

China tennis - we're getting bigger and bigger. — Li Na

To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his life: Reason - Purpose - Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge - Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve - Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. — Ayn Rand

Market segmentation s a natural result of the vast differences among people. — Donald Norman

Do something. Anything. You're alive, and you'll only be for a few decades, and then it's done. You'll be in the ground, worm food. Make something and don't let fear consume you. — Gianfranco Zola

She looks so young, so hungry, her eyes full of possibility, of what is in store for her. — S.J. Watson

Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form. — Hampton Sides

I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket. — Nate Berkus