Top 100 The C Quotes
#1. I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
Carlos Ghosn
#2. Quite without thought, he glanced at his left hand, and saw the ghost of the scar at the base of his thumb, the "C" so faded that it was scarcely visible. He had not noticed it or thought of it in years, and felt suddenly as though there was not air enough to breathe.
Diana Gabaldon
#3. I'm very proud to be wearing the "C" for the Maple Leafs. It puts a smile on my face everyday
Mats Sundin
#4. Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating Mr. Snowden like a human being, offering him a chance to testify before Congress and a fair trial?
Alex Berenson
#5. Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
#6. The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.
Joel Sternfeld
#7. Four other pieces of equipment that most senior officers came to regard as among the most vital to our success in Africa and Europe were the bulldozer, the jeep, the 2
ton truck, and the C-47 airplane. Curiously, none of these is designed for combat.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#8. To have a healthy and thriving business, there must be healthy relationships with the C.E.O.S. in the organization and I'm not referring to the Chief Executive Offficers. I am talking about the Customers, the Employees, the Owner (or stockholders), and the Suppliers.
James Hunter
#9. I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.
Dennis Ritchie
#10. Although he thinks he's awesome at them, Andrew really sucks at languages. Once, he tried to speak French to this woman who owned the C'est La Vie bakery back home, and she gave him a cookie because she thought he was mentally challenged. (Page 21)
Alicia Thompson
#11. What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.
Stephen Kinzer
#12. Mr. Luskin also says that Rove did not knowingly disclose classified information and did not tell any reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the C.I.A.
Michael Isikoff
#13. That's here on CBS, where the 'C' stands for 'Classy' and the 'BS' speaks for itself.
Craig Ferguson
#14. An Egyptian newspaper once publicly identified me as the C.I.A. station chief in Cairo. It seemed so stupid at the time. I was only 24, a little young to be a station chief, and, of course, I was never with the C.I.A.
Richard Engel
#15. We all belong to the C Generation-the connecting generation in the digital age.
Pearl Zhu
#17. In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as 'don't make a mistake.' And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out.
Bernard L. Schwartz
#18. If the employees fundamentally trust the C.E.O., then communications will be vastly more efficient than if they don't. Telling things as they are is a critical part of building this trust.
Ben Horowitz
#19. Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad.
Richard Engel
#20. Daniel Ek, the C.E.O. of Spotify, is a rock star of the tech world, but he is not long on charisma.
John Seabrook
#21. The C.E.O. of Google doesn't look like a Dick Cheney World Domination sort whom we should worry about as Google ogles our houses, our oceans, our foibles, our movements and our tastes.
Maureen Dowd
#22. Now she said, "I'm up to the four-letter words." And I said, "You mean the dirty ones, like shit?" And she laughed and said, "Worse ones than that." And I said, "You mean the c-word and the f-word?" and she said, "No. Like love.
Margaret Atwood
#23. I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.
Michael Shannon
#24. I'll learn all the katas and be the ninjing-est ninja that ever ninjed." Bubbles whined, so I bent down to rub his silky little head. "Is it the c-word, Bubbs? Don't you worry, we love the doggas as well as the katas." David laughed.
J.L. Merrow
#25. I think there's few cases in history where the C.E.O. steps down and is also the founder and reports to someone and that works.
Evan Williams
#26. The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
P. J. O'Rourke
#27. Niggas is decaf, I stick 'em for the C.R.E.A.M.
Method Man
#28. As I've said many times before, in the real world, the A students often go to work for the C students--and the B students work for the government.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#30. Students in school cheat not to get the 'A,' but to avoid the 'C.'
Charles Duhigg
#31. When people ask me if I have worked for the C.I.A., I often answer: what good to you is my answer? Because if I did, I might not say so.
Robert Littell
#32. If I'm in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know what's possible, or I may not have the creativity, but if I can identify a problem, that's a valuable thing.
Ben Horowitz
#33. Many of us spend more time on the C's of life than on the A's of life. Don't allow trivial things to crowd out the important ones.
Douglas Merrill
#34. The C+ amps is vintage at this point, and it definitely has a certain sound to it. I wanted something that was going to keep Dream Theater in more of a current musical landscape, as far as being the producer and producing the type of album I wanted to hear.
John Petrucci
#35. When I'm in New York I love to stay at the Mercer Hotel, and the C. Wonder store was so part of my New York experience from staying downtown. What I love the most about the brand is the enthusiasm that the customer has for it.
Brad Goreski
#36. Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology.
William H. Calvin
#37. chanting. Neither any of the C.I.s, or this man here,
Luke Smitherd
#38. I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did.
Brian Setzer
#39. Like hell he was," said the first C.I.D. man. "I'm the C.I.D. man arround here."
Major Major could barely recognize him because he was wearing a faded maroon corduroy bathrobe with open seams under both arms, linty flannel pajamas, & worn house slippers with one flapping sole.
Joseph Heller
#40. Lyme disease is the most commonly reported tick-borne illness in the United States, and the incidence is growing rapidly. In 2009, the C.D.C. reported thirty-eight thousand cases, three times more than in 1991. Most researchers agree that the true number of infections is five to ten times higher.
Michael Specter
#42. We have more voices from more points of view on the C-SPAN call-in show than I've heard anywhere else. You can literally tune us in every day and hear it all. You can't control it, and you shouldn't control it.
Brian Lamb
#43. There hasn't been a scandal this big at the C.I.A. since (CLASSIFIED) committed (CENSORED) to (REDACTED).
Stephen Colbert
#44. The C-4 really did look like a stick of butter, neatly wrapped in brown paper. So did the next brick she took from her trunk. And the next. "How much did you get?" I asked. She shrugged with a smile. "I called in some favors. Figured we might as well go all out on the shock and awe.
Craig Schaefer
#45. The main thing is that the 'C' is silent, so it kind of starts with a 'Z.' Z-O-O-K-RIE. It's Ukrainian, on my dad's side.
Matt Czuchry
#46. There was always something that needed transferring from A to B or, of course, to the bottom of the C.
Any
Terry Pratchett
#47. We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.
Martin Amis
#48. With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
Bjarne Stroustrup
#49. We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp.
Guy Steele
#50. Front end loading with appropriate resources provided time to reflect and produce needed changes and alignment around the C&Q approach.
Robert A. Young
#51. I'm in a squad where I'd rather shoot the C.O than the enemy.- Cooper Hawkes
Knock it off. -T,C. McQueen
You know what I'm saying, Sir. I mean I never felt like shooting you. -Cooper Hawkes
Stop it, Hawkes. You're making me all misty.-- T.C. McQueen
James Morrison
#52. The first rule of the C.E.O. psychological meltdown is 'Don't talk about the psychological meltdown.'
Ben Horowitz
#53. The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language.
Mark Pearce
#54. To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.
Steven Rattner
#55. The c**k isn't a muscle so it doesn't grow in relation to the shoulders, say, or the pectorals. You can't make it bigger through exercise, that's for sure.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#56. George W. Bush gave a commencement speech at Southern Methodist University this weekend. It was pretty inspirational. He said, 'As I like to tell the 'C' students, you too can be president.' Even George W. Bush has George W. Bush comedy material in his act.
Jimmy Fallon
#57. Every employee in a company depends on the C.E.O. to make fast, high-quality decisions.
Ben Horowitz
#58. In the report made on behalf of the C.G.T. we affirmed that the Peace Treaty should, in accordance with the spirit of workers' organizations, lay the first foundations of the United States of Europe.
Leon Jouhaux
#59. To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.
George W. Bush
#60. Whenever I felt down, whenever I started wondering what homeless shelter I would die in, [my mother] would buck me up by telling me: you know, Paul, the A students work for the B students, the C students run the companies, and the D students dedicate the buildings.
Paul Orfalea
#61. Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say ... Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
Brian Jacques
#62. We need to prioritize those expenditures of the federal government in A, B and C priorities ... And I believe that on the C priority list are things like the Departments of Education and Energy, and those are the places where we should begin those defunding.
Sharron Angle
#63. Whenever the C++ language designers had two competing ideas as to how they should solve some problem, they said, "OK, we'll do them both". So the language is too baroque for my taste.
Donald Knuth
#64. Snowden was extremely good at digital self-defense. When he was employed by the C.I.A. and N.S.A., one of his jobs was to teach U.S. national security officials and C.I.A. employees how to protect their data in high-threat digital environments.
Luke Harding
#65. You keep a grip of my heels, Pole, and Scrubb would hold on to yours. The we'll all be comfortable.
C.S. Lewis
#66. Anything that grows is, by definition, alive. Washington, D.C. was no exception. As a living organism, the Federal Government's number one job was self-preservation. Any threat to its existence had to be dealt with.
Brad Thor
#67. To generalize is to be an idiot, said Blake. Perhaps he went too far. But to generalize is to be a finite mind. Generalities are the lenses with which our intellects have to manage.
C.S. Lewis
#68. No man can die unless Jesus opens the mystic door of death.
J.C. Ryle
#69. The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees.
R.C. Sproul
#70. With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
M. C. Gainey
#71. My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean. I was like, 'Max, you get the dogs. I'll talk to the hot blondes.'
John C. McGinley
#72. Withstanding the cold develops vigor for the relaxing days of spring and summer. Besides, in this matter as in many others, it is evident that nature abhors a quitter.
Arthur C. Crandall
#73. The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.
C.S. Lewis
#74. What has been seen cannot be unseen, what has been learned cannot be unknown. You cannot change the past, but you can learn from it. You can grow from it. You can be made stronger. You can use that strength to change your life, to change your future.
C.A. Woolf
#75. Did you know that the center of a Protostar (the star in the middle of a nebula) is called a Nuclear Furnace? So you can call that the star's "heart." The heart of a star is a furnace. Not much unlike the human heart.
C. JoyBell C.
#76. It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason
W.C. Fields
#77. He got the impression she might be a bit fucked up, but that had always been his type. The kind that would break your headlights, egg your house, spray paint ASSHOLE on your garage door.
C.D. Breadner
#78. What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.
V.C. Andrews
#79. Immortal honour, endless fame, Attend the Almighty Father's name: The Saviour Son be glorified, Who for lost man's redemption died; And equal adoration be, Eternal Paraclete, to Thee. Amen. - RABANUS MAURUS (9TH C.); TRANSLATED BY JOHN DRYDEN (1631
David P. Gushee
#80. The respect I have for her has bloomed into this monster that's taken up residence inside of me, made me fall hard for a girl I'll never get.
C.M. Stunich
#81. By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
C.S. Lewis
#82. Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#83. The DREAM Act was intended to benefit illegal immigrants who were brought here as children, the most sympathetic subset among our large illegal immigrant population.
Jan C. Ting
#84. I don't care about the weight. You know, I'm lucky; I'm one of those people - I can eat donuts, whatever, and I just get fat.
Louis C.K.
#85. Thus the conscience, though it may lead the unsaved man aright in some areas, cannot save him, since it is defiled, seared, and evil. But in regeneration it is cleansed and used by the Lord to guide the believer in his political, vocational, spiritual, and social relations.
Charles C. Ryrie
#86. You ever go to shop for tuna, and it says "dolphin safe", and you look at it and kind of go, "Yeah, but"-like somehow you think it's not going to be as good? Like, "I want to do the right thing-but it's probably kind of bland without the dolphin."
Louis C.K.
#87. The guard said, 'Our orders are no one in or out.'
'You can tell the Prince that,' said Damen, 'after you tell him you let through the Regent's pet.'
That got a flicker of reaction. Invoking Laurent's bad mood was like a magical key, unlocking the most forbidding doors.
C.S. Pacat
#88. I can afford to take a risk in my life. Only the insecure cannot afford to risk failure. The secure can be honest about themselves. They can admit failure. They are able to seek help and try again. They can change
John C. Maxwell
#89. He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.
J.C. Ryle
#90. I don't mean to take the bow off the end of your rain, but you gotta be smart about your first boyfriend.
C. Kennedy
#91. The best way to punish a good deed is to announce it to everyone else.
C.J. Redwine
#92. The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C., and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s - and it has not fundamentally evolved since then. You go in, sit down, they put a tourniquet on your arm, stick you with a needle, take these tubes and tubes of blood.
Elizabeth Holmes
#93. It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting to the circumstances under which they acted. Thus, to judge is to do great injustice to the wise and patriotic men who preceded us.
John C. Calhoun
#94. We will not open healed wounds!"
"My wounds are not healed!" I stated just as firmly. "They will never be healed until justice is done!
V.C. Andrews
#95. When Theolyn died, the humans had built an enormous pyre and placed his body at the center. How was [Veka] supposed to know humans cremated their dead instead of cooking them? She had figured it out quickly enough, but not before Jimar and his ilk had spotted her standing at the pyre, fork in hand.
Jim C. Hines
#96. We had a few issues to work out in the beginning. He made me quit smoking. I made him eat a candy bar.
C.L.Stone
#97. These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell.
C. R. Smith
#98. After three rings the call's picked up on the other end. "Laura Stodgill here, U.S. Department of Anomalous Devices of Unknown Origin. McSpadden, what do you have for me in your vortex of weirdness?
C. Gockel
#99. One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.
Arthur C. Clarke
#100. Bon Jovi is most definitely the key to how I am able to write so much in a day
C.S. Woolley
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