Remortgaged Quotes & Sayings

If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment. — James Dyson

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages. — Roger Bacon

I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next step was to think innovators are taking a leap into the unknown. That led me to the thought that it is also a source of fun and employee engagement. — Edmund Phelps

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal ... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this — Friedrich Nietzsche

Young filmmakers are supposed to be the young turks that advance the current state of filmmaking ideas. — Reginald Hudlin

I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day. — Kate Walsh

We both know the kandra wanted him on this mission, and they arranged the meeting with me to try to hook him. At the precinct, when I accomplish something, everyone assumes I had Waxillium's help. Sometimes it's like I'm no more than an appendage."
"You're not that at all, Marasi," Wayne said. "You're important. You help out a lot. Plus you smell nice, and not all bloody and stuff."
"Great. I have no idea what you just said."
"Appendages don't smell nice," Wayne said. "And they're kinda gross. I cut one outta a fellow once."
"You mean an appendix?"
"Sure." He hesitated. "So ... "
"Not the same thing."
"Right. Thought you was makin' a metaphor, since people don't need one of those and all. — Brandon Sanderson

Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news - from your life. — Matt Cutts

I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength. — Franz Kafka

Codifying discrimination in our laws should be something we read about in American history, not on the front pages of today's American newspapers and magazines. — Dannel Malloy

The beautiful courage of us, the hope that defines our kind, is that we go on, no matter how much life wounds us. We walk. We face the sea and the wind and the salted truth of death, and we go on. — Gregory David Roberts

Try not to leave your work for someone else to do. If possible, carry the work of someone and add it to yours. That's a trait of leaders! — Israelmore Ayivor

Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight. — Colin Fletcher

When I decided to become an actress, I think I let some people down. It was a kind of rebellion. — Heather Langenkamp

After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault. — John B. Hood

Don't you know how hopelessly I need you? — Amanda Lance