Breakspear Mansion Quotes

#1. George Washington famously warned against ... 'ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear

George Washington

#2. I felt my being flutter. each tousled head that came through the door i wanted to be his, but no and on, a dozen boys entered, yet not the one.

Laura Whitcomb

#3. When you're on a submarine you're usually underwater for months at a time, and you don't get to Skype or make phone calls. When you get messages, they're maybe two sentences. They're very short.

Jessy Schram

#4. I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.

Matthew McConaughey

#5. Synthesis is the process of making a natural product, or some other substance, artificially, in the lab, one step at a time, from extremely simple building blocks.

Gregory Petsko

#6. With Street View, you're curating a data set capable of incredible emotional resonance for the person interacting with it because everyone grew up somewhere. And if your house is in this dataset, that's going to provide some emotional context for you.

Chris Milk

#7. A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.

Henry Kissinger

#8. If my boss knew how unproductive I am on Fridays, he wouldn't want me here either.

James Johnson

#9. With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids' books, it's like 5 percent. Which means that the parents, the ones that aren't going into stores now, they're no longer buying books for their kids, which is not great.

James Patterson

#10. I've never wanted to be in fashion. Because if you're in fashion, you're going to be out of fashion.

Ralph Lauren

#11. I am saved. I am redeemed.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I've been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs who didn't have years of experience, and yet they changed the world.

Maynard Webb