Search Haystack Quotes & Sayings

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor. — Nikola Tesla

Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets, but every private text message, email, and voicemail is likely to be stored and accessible. Forever. — Douglas Rushkoff

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down. — Beryl Markham

The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism a socialism that, owing to its origins, might be guided not by authoritarian bureaucracy, but by democratic self-rule. — Salvador Allende

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore. — David Antin

I like the challenges of doing different things. It keeps things fresh for me. — James Iha

I started out with nothing in the world but a kind of passion, a driving desire. I don't know where it came from, and I don't know why - or why I have been so stubborn about it that nothing could deflect me. But this thing between me and my writing is the strongest bond I have ever had - stronger than any bond or any engagement with any human being or with any other work I've ever done. — Katherine Anne Porter

Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion. — Arthur Helps

God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It is not his greatest pleasure to show his sovereign power, or his inconceivable wisdom, but his immense goodness, to which he makes the other attributes subservient. — Stephen Charnock

He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search. — Peter Jackson

Finally life becomes a very specific thing
and that's what we are. Ultimately, looking back, I'm beginning to believe that we need to always be fucked up. We need to always have some reason to hate ourselves, something to make us feel eternally incomplete. — Arthur Nersesian

Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I wanted to make films that were culturally relevant in my own country, that challenged people, and that people talked about. — Lenny Abrahamson