Vittadini Quotes & Sayings

One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out. — Steve Jobs

The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing. — Joshua Harris

No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale. — Honore De Balzac

I always say that life is not easy for anybody. People hear about the young actors who have a rough life, but there are plenty of other kids who aren't actors who have a rough time, too, and I don't know if the ratio is any different. — Johnny Crawford

If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. — Samuel Johnson

The president of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, attended its grand opening. — Erik Larson

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors. — Abraham Lincoln

I don't underestimate audiences' intelligence. Audiences are much brighter than media gives them credit for. When people went to a movie once a week in the 1930s and that was their only exposure to media, you were required to do a different grammar. — Michael Mann

The test of total independence comes each night when the bedroom door closes behind you, the lights go out and all that there is to keep you company in the infinite darkness are your thoughts. — Jon Richardson

What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand marketing, finance, accounting. That, M.B.A. programmes do very well. — Henry Mintzberg

You have no knowledge of me. You are to be pitied.'
'Envied, more like,' said his undutiful son. — Georgette Heyer

Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it. — Jeffrey Zaslow

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites. — Andrew Greeley

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion. — Paul Nurse

Have you ever tried?'
'No.'
'Then don't tell me I can't. — Melissa Marr