Superuser Root Quotes & Sayings

Does she really call herself my girlfriend?" "Oh, I wouldn't know. We haven't spent an evening gossiping and painting each other's toenails since the kidnapping." Glaring, — Marissa Meyer

Society: an inferno of saviors! — Emile M. Cioran

We're not meant to fit in. We're meant to stand out. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she realized that evil had a domestic side, and its very banality protected it from exposure. — Thrity Umrigar

There is a great temptation with songs, melodies and lyrics to overcomplicate them but in fact, you find that the most enduring melodies are often the simplest. — Ken Hensley

I was the last person on the face of the Earth to help when it came to the opposite sex.
I'd only kissed one boy in my entire life.
And he'd been a demon.
So ... — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Damn, this op has been like a fucking Love Boat episode. — Suzanne Brockmann

A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself. — Gloria Steinem

REST IN PEACE, MR. PARKER.
'You want us to be surreptitious?' Hawk said.
'Surreptitious?' Sapp said.
'I educated in Head Start,' Hawk said.
'Really worked,' Sapp said.
'No reason to be covert,' I said.
'You too?' Sapp said.
'Nope,' I said. 'I'm a straight Anglo white guy of European ancestry. We're naturally smart.'
'You missed Bernard,' Sapp said.
'Tall straight Anglo white guy,' I said.
'Hey,' Bernard said.
— Robert B. Parker

Ever notice how amused people are when you point out one of their mannerisms or a funny quirk about them? They start laughing and getting happy because they're thinking, "People notice me! I'm relevent!" It's OK to have these instincts, but you have to suppress them a bit. There are 6 billion people here, so it's not all about you. You need to let other people talk for a while and pay attention to their world for a sec. — Lesley Arfin

My best and worst boss was the same man - my father. He never - and I mean never - took 'I can't' for an answer. He taught me the value system that, to this day, I have continued to practice. — George Steinbrenner

I understood that no one could have lobbed such a stinging wad of shame out into the world without having a considerable personal reserve of it to draw on. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Bargains are the holy grail of the true stockpicker. The fact that 10 to 30 percent of our net worth is lost in a market sell-off is of little consequence. We see the latest correction not as a disaster but as an opportunity to acquire more shares at low prices. This is how great fortunes are made over time. — Peter Lynch

There is nothing like competition. It teaches you early in life to win and lose, and, when you lose, to put your chin out instead of dropping it. — Maureen Connolly

It seems that 'national security' is the root password to the Constitution. As with any dishonest superuser, the best countermeasure is strong encryption. — Phil Karn

And for three weeks I was trapped in my own mind again. But this time, I had weapons. One of them, maybe the most important, was this knowledge: I have been ill before, then well again. Wellness is possible. — Matt Haig