All Quotes

What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.
‐‐ Linus Torvalds

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
‐‐ Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.
‐‐ Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate.
‐‐ Kathryn Stockett

What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.
‐‐ Simon Wiesenthal

What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business.
‐‐ Shelley Berkley

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
‐‐ Hermann Hesse

What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.
‐‐ Nicholas A. Christakis

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.
‐‐ Jeff Bezos

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
‐‐ Lyndon B. Johnson

What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining prices and profit margins, increasing competition, and lowered barriers to entry.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.
‐‐ J. C. Ryle

What could be a better recipe than mixing fashion and food?
‐‐ Chiara Ferragni

What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?
‐‐ Richard Armitage

What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?
‐‐ Rocky Marciano

What could be funnier than a fat person trying to run a marathon?
‐‐ Jo Brand

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
‐‐ Brigitte Bardot

What could be more boring than a novel that tells you how to think about everything that happens in it?
‐‐ Jonathan Dee

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?
‐‐ Jacques Lacan

What could be more exciting when the writing is going well and things are falling into place? It's just like riding a fabulous wave for a surfer. There's no better place to be.
‐‐ Paul Fleischman

What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel.
‐‐ Sigmar Gabriel

What could I have possibly learned except the really most important thing, which is that I did not want to work at the 'New York Times'? Beyond that, I learned how a newspaper works.
‐‐ Michael Wolf

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
‐‐ Hermann Hesse

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?
‐‐ Raoul Vaneigem

What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only find that magic bottle that lets you never have to sleep. I have so much stuff I wanna do, but... That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!
‐‐ Robert Rodriguez

What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.
‐‐ Diane Kruger

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower

What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.
‐‐ Rene Burri

What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.
‐‐ Merton Miller

What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
‐‐ Otto Preminger

What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better.
‐‐ Brady Anderson

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.
‐‐ Jim Hightower

What created Silicon Valley was a culture of openness, and there is no future to Silicon Valley without it.
‐‐ Sarah Lacy

What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.
‐‐ Jonathan Sacks

What creates success on HSN is great product, a great story and a great storyteller.
‐‐ Mindy Grossman

What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.
‐‐ S. J. Rozan

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
‐‐ Billy Wilder

What crushed my soul was hanging out with bitter, desperate comics backstage. They're a different breed than the bitter yet eager psyches in the wings of an improv theatre. Struggling stand-ups have externalized self-loathing into an art form. They're a hunching, quaking, unshaven lot.
‐‐ Scott Adsit

What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues.
‐‐ Ellen Willis

What cursed spirit of falsehood moveth priests to close themselves within stone walls for all their life, since Christ commanded all his apostles and priests to go into all the world, and to preach the Gospel?
‐‐ John Wycliffe

What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any sense ancestral to any other; none of them is more primitive than any other. We are all modern races of exactly equal status, evolutionarily speaking.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
‐‐ Ian McShane

What decisions would you make differently today if you knew you would most likely live to be 150? How would you think about your 50s or 60s? How would you evaluate your career arcs or investments or even the area in which you live?
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing.
‐‐ Neil Patrick Harris

What defines greatness is when you hold all the records and what you mean to your fans, on and off the field, because that is who ranks you as the greatest receiver of all-time. The guy that holds all the records, the guy that has set the stage for all of us, you have to give it to Jerry Rice.
‐‐ Donald Driver

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
‐‐ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.
‐‐ Bill Maher