Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Jennings

Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.

Robert Mankoff

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

Mallory Ortberg

Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.

John Scalzi

Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins.

Diane Keaton

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Dennis Ritchie

The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.

Edsger Dijkstra

PL/1, the fatal disease, belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.

Carlos Ponce

I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.

Eddie Vedder

Caffeine. The gateway drug.

Chris Evert

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

Diane Kruger

The reason I stopped modeling was because I was not pleased with trying to portray something that is impossible to reach. Even when I do photo shoots now for films, I am just not interested in trying to look my best all the time anymore. That pursuit of an impossible perfection seems ridiculous to me now. I would rather show my vulnerabilities or my doubts than try to be something that no one is.

Eike Batista

Don’t aim for perfection, aim for success.

Edsger Dijkstra

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

Eddie Vedder

Well there's a lot of machines making music today too so you should expect perfection from them! Other than that it's humans programming it which is actually why i still like it. But yeah, that sounds about right. Now what I've got to do is I've got to stop expecting it of myself.

Ed Parker

To live is to change, and to obtain perfection is to change often.

Earl Nightingale

Excellence always sells.

Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

Alexander Wang

In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

Elbert Hubbard

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

William Wordsworth

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.

Deepak Chopra

In our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.

Ben Walker

We are moved by the community's overwhelming generosity to support hurricane victims.

E. F. Schumacher

The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is enough room on the Earth, and there are enough materials, so that everybody can have adequate shelter; we are quite competent enough to produce sufficient supplies of necessities so that no one need live in misery.

E. F. Schumacher

There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.

Charles Spurgeon

Giving is true loving.

Alan Bleasdale

It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time.

David Rakoff

Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving.