Grokked Quotes

#1. 'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#2. In order to tame death, they refuse to completely enjoy life. In rejecting complete enjoyment, they are half-dead in advance - and that with no guarantee that their sacrifice will actually benefit them when all is done.

Tom Robbins

#3. I love color and I love to dress like a woman.

Lisa Guerrero

#4. The simpler it is, the better I like it.

Peter Lynch

#5. Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.

Karen Essex

#6. I'm ready to run a studio. I'm ready to green light movies, and be in it to win it, you know? It's close. It'll happen.

Ice Cube

#7. To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.

Felix Baumgartner

#8. I regret not getting brutally forthright with human beings a hell of a lot sooner than I did. Civility and obliquity are wasted on people who will not make the effort to be harsher or stricter on their own gooey egos than they are on other people.

Kenny Smith

#9. Children reinvent your world for you.

Susan Sarandon

#10. I don't like to go to conventions, and I don't like to relate to people on a level of hero worship, because there's no real communication going on there.

Alan Moore

#11. It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature

Eric S. Raymond

#12. Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

Mark Twain

#13. Also, she does this thing women sometimes do with their eyebrows where they just completely shave them off and draw news ones in a different weird place with a Sharpie or something, and the more you think about it, the more your stomach starts churning around and you want to claw your own head.

Jesse Andrews

#14. It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry
he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now were identical.

Robert A. Heinlein

#15. I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it. Once you realize there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away.

Bob Schieffer

#16. Those who submit to the Lord with simple heart will run the good race. If they keep their minds on a leash, they will not draw the wickedness of the demons onto themselves.

John Climacus

#17. I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

Andrew Sullivan