Stroustrup Website Quotes & Sayings

If we had fooled her last night, I would have considered my life at a satisfactory end, with all debts paid. I would have wound up on skid row, or maybe I would have been a suicide." He shrugged and smiled sadly. "Now," he said, "if I'm ever going to square things with her, I've got to believe in a Heaven, I've got to believe she can look down and see me, and I've got to be a big success for her to see — Kurt Vonnegut

Not everything can be achieved alone. — Hanif Kureishi

What I enjoy most about performing is making people happy. Just to make a person smile means more to me than anything. — Michael Jackson

Well, there is one boy- a boy that I've thought about forever. The sad part about it is that he lives in a world that only exists when the sun has expired and the moon stands alone in the sky- my dreams. Very sad to say it, but he'd the only boy I've ever taken the chance to think about. Concealed — Sang Kromah

Every day, people settle for less than they desearve. They are only parially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness. — Bo Bennett

What you do in life is yours. — Jennifer Close

The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but it is instinct. — Henry David Thoreau

We've changed our reflections, but inside we're just a child. — Ben Harper

I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance. — Kate Williams

With any word, there are subconscious associations, which simply means that certain words make you think of certain things, even if you don't want to. The word 'cake,' for example, might remind you of your birthday, and the words 'prison warden' might remind you of someone you haven't seen in a very long time. The word 'Beatrice' reminds me of a volunteer organization that was swarming with corruption, and the word 'midnight' reminds me that I must keep writing this chapter very quickly or else I will probably drown. — Lemony Snicket

If there is no art, no culture, then what the fuck are we going to talk about? These are our stories and our stories are all we got! — Dave Hickey

"Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence. — Lewis Carroll

Intelligence is the capacity to be in the present. The more you are in the past or are in the future, the less intelligent you are. Intelligence is the capacity to be here-now, to be in this moment and nowhere else. Then you are awake. — Rajneesh