Stangelville Quotes & Sayings

If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will fail. If you make something special and powerful and honest and true, you will succeed. — Hugh MacLeod

If you look at most successful startups, they're run by people in their mid to late forties, who've gone through the trenches multiple times and had multiple failures, so they understand. — Tony Fadell

Everyone can write a cliche. What's rare is to write them often and unashamedly enough that people quote it as if it's some deep shit. — Jimmy Lo

If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I could never do business, seek employment or take part in public affairs outside that community. — S.I. Hayakawa

The earth is four-fifths water, that's a lot of room to hide, so the great trick of naval warfare has always been to find the enemy before he finds you. You're finished, if you can't do that, and all the courage and sacrifice in the world simply adds up to a lost war. — Alan Furst

You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery. — Bill Maher

For the purpose of securing epithets at once accurate and felicitous, the young author should familiarize himself thoroughly with the general aspect and phenomena of Nature, as well as with the ideas and associations which these things produce in the human mind. — H.P. Lovecraft

In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners. — Mason Cooley

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song. — Dolly Parton

President and Mrs. Kennedy would walk into the East Room with their honored guests, preceded by the military color guard, who then posted their flags behind the receiving line. This ceremony never failed to move all of us, no matter how many times the staff witnessed it. — Letitia Baldrige

I want to make my music a genre that people can immediately identify: something that never existed. — Ji-Hae Park