Will Alsop Quotes

#1. Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.

Edward Thorndike

#2. The goal is too small and the goalies are too big.

Scotty Bowman

#3. A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.

Joseph Alsop

#4. We all know what we're doing. Whether we realize it or not.

Maureen Johnson

#5. Life is often more a sweat than a pleasure but, paradoxically, it is the sweat that gives true meaning to all of life's pleasures. This is the message from Mack Bolan, book after book, and it is the only thing dignifying this type of fiction.

Don Pendleton

#6. Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.

Stewart Alsop

#7. The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern.

Joseph Alsop

#8. Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

Stewart Alsop

#9. If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

Martial

#10. I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.

Dave Mustaine

#11. By leveraging the Unicode Standard, Progress Software is enabling its ASPs (Application Service Providers) and ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) to quickly and efficiently deliver their business applications to the Internet and to users around the world.

Joseph Alsop

#12. I've always heard that by the time you see the teeth, its too late."

(this quote paraphrased in several Jayne Castle books)

Jayne Castle

#13. Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you

Bill Gates

#14. Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas - but not zombies.

Mercedes Lackey

#15. Bill, The United States is not a company. It is a country.

Stewart Alsop

#16. Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras.

Joseph Alsop

#17. I don't believe in the word 'inspiration', you just have to do it.

Will Alsop

#18. Beauty is a fact, and it can change with time. Something ugly in the morning can become beautiful in the evening.

Will Alsop

#19. In this media-drenched, data-rich, channel-surfing, computer-gaming age, we have lost the art of doing nothing, of shutting out the background noise and distractions, of slowing down and simply being alone with our thoughts.

Carl Honore

#20. I want to say to all the young women out there, as I say to all young people: believe in yourselves, follow your passion and never give up, because you will create a future filled with possibility.

Marin Alsop

#21. Success means pursuing a career that inspires you-brings passion to your life and totally absorbs your energy.

Marin Alsop

#22. Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.

Joseph Alsop

#23. For storms will rage and oceans roar,
When Gabriel stands on sea and shore,
And as he blows his wondrous horn,
Old worlds die and new be born.

Deborah Harkness

#24. I'm definitely a feminist & proud of it.

Marin Alsop

#25. Some people know that they are so adorable looking, all they have to do is smile and dress up and they get plenty from that. Then there are some of us who, early on, see that that doesn't work. So we joke about it.

Merrill Markoe

#26. This considerably softened my resentment, though it did not make me relent. I was determined to show him that my heart was not his slave, and I could live without him if I chose.

Anne Bronte

#27. We face a dark future if children stop asking questions, Susanna, Goody Alsop remarked.

Deborah Harkness

#28. A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Stewart Alsop

#29. Street law dictated that for a parley of this kind each lieutenant be seconded by two of his foot soldiers and that they all be unarmed. Parley. The word felt like a deception - strangely prim, an antique. No matter what street law decreed, this night smelled like violence.

Leigh Bardugo