General Patent Quotes

#1. The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

David Ogilvy

#2. He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive ...

James Agee

#3. Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need support.

Isadore Sharp

#4. I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why 3x = 2y/4.

Rosie O'Donnell

#5. When relying solely on ego, we are given many messages that are contrary to the achievement of that happy and fulfilling life that most of us actually desire.

Taite Adams

#6. Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

Peter Drucker

#7. He consorted with prostitutes and poets ... and with persons even worse.

Jorge Luis Borges

#8. We declare you the new mayor!" declares the crowd.

what about the old mayor?" I'll ask.

I'm not the one with the big plans!" he'll say.

Bob Shea

#9. To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.

Louis C.K.

#10. Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money ... I used to love traveling on the trains from town to town. The hotels ... brass spittoons in the lobbies, brass beds in the rooms. It was the crowd, rising to their feet when the ball was hit deep. Shoot, I'd play for nothing!

Ray Liotta

#11. Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he's there, he's not really there.

Paul Auster

#12. To not dare is to have already lost. We should seek out ambitious, even unrealistic projects, because things only happen when we dream.

Andree Putman

#13. Even Australians who take a very, very hard line about asylum seekers - and unfortunately there are more than I would like to think - are probably a bit uncomfortable with the kind of treatment that has been meted out to children in detention by the Australian Government, in their name.

Malcolm Fraser

#14. ...energy begets energy.

John Irving

#15. Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

Thomas Merton