Cryptic Posts Quotes

#1. You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

Ernst Lubitsch

#2. The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Carl Jung

#3. Laughter
an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.

Jack Welch

#5. Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day.

Arthur Golden

#6. Whoever had invented long division has a lot to answer for.

Joan Lingard

#7. One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.

Rob Bell

#8. I don't care about anybody being handsome", she said, "but I never did go for anybody that reminded me of a box of spilled spaghetti. All elbows and dry rattle.

Robert Penn Warren

#9. She spoke and he could not understand. The sounds were distinct in his ear but they had no shape or meaning. It was as though his head were the prow of a boat and the sounds were water that broke on him and then flowed past. He felt he had to look behind to find the words already said.

Carson McCullers

#10. [Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?]
We won't know for a few years.

Stephen Hawking