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“I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.”

Want Whole Might Months Six Projects Scientist Lists Six Months Visiting Ibm

Author:Wietse Venema

“I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.”

Ifs Wanted Reading Work Picks Decided Lists

Author:Sarah Zettel

“I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don't eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.”

People Knows Whole Political Stuff Sleep Party Groups Lists Managers Political Parties Publicists

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.”

Laughing Laughter Medicine Lists Belly Highlights Laughter Is The Best Medicine

Author:Carol Vorderman

“The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.”

Humans Passion Animal Lists Human Animal Primates Totems

Author:H. Allen Smith

“I made a list of things I have to remember and a list of things I want to forget, but I see they are the same list.”

Want Made Remember Forget Lists

Book:給要離家的女兒

Source: 給要離家的女兒

“Prayer did not come easily to me for I always feel that prayer is a silent things, and opening of the heart. To ask for earthly benefits, to reel out a list of requirements and expect them to be supplied is not prayer. It is putting God in the same category as an intelligent grocer.”

Feels Heart Asks Prayer Benefits Intelligent Silent Lists Opening Categories Requirements Grocers

Author:D.E. Stevenson

“Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative process something like eavesdropping at a party for which you've had the fun of drawing up the guest list. Loneliness usually doesn't set in until the work is finished, and all the partygoers and their imagined universe have disappeared.”

Writing Character Universe Language Fun Process Party Fiction Creative Loneliness Lonely Finished Drawing Lists Occupation Guests Creative Process Solitary Writing Fiction Eavesdropping

Author:Hilma Wolitzer

“A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.”

Choices Design Materials Ordinary Plant Lists Significant Landscape Merit Collections Arrangements Best Design Best Poem

Book:The nature of landscape design: as an art form, a craft, a social necessity

Source: The nature of landscape design: as an art form, a craft, a social necessity

“I find that getting something on the screen as soon as possible really helps focus the problem for me. It helps me decide what to work on next. Because if you're just looking at that big to-do list it's like, eh, I don't know which one I should do—does it matter which one I do? But if there's something you can actually look at, even if it's just the debug output of your mailbox parser, it's like, OK, there!”

Ifs Knows Should Looks Doe Matter Helping Problem Bigs Next Focus Screens Lists Help Me Output Does It Matter Mailboxes

Author:Jamie Zawinski

“When shooting a story about someone, their hands should always be on your list to shoot.”

Should Stories Hands Lists Shooting

Book:The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters

Source: The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters

“Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim toward increasing the sustainability of our world. I urge public officials, scholars, and students in public policy programs to place this volume on their list of must-read books. It is a powerful antidote to the overly simplified proposals too often offered as solutions to contemporary problems at multiple scales.”

“America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show.”

People Shows America Names News Responsible Lists Hostage Emmys

Author:Pierre Salinger

“We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. When I was [in my twenties], I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. Ten years later not one of those five things turned up on my list. I was: journalist, feminist, New Yorker, divorced, funny. Today not one of those five things turns up in my list: writer, director, mother, sister, happy.”

“Focus on growing your list all of the time as newer subscribers are more engaged adding to healthier open rates and ROI.”

Focus Growing Rate Marketing Lists Engaged Roi

Author:Karl Murray

“Men like to flirt with, and sometimes even date a wild child, but those women aren't usually first on their lists for marriage or motherhood.”

Men Firsts Children Sometimes Motherhood Lists Modesty Flirting Wild Child

Author:Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“We were also performing. We'd give them a list of, like, 'Here's how we want to be introduced' They'd be like, 'Great' And then 5 minutes later they'd come back, 'Bad news: we lost your list. But good news: we've got a trash bag full of weed!'”

Want Giving Lost Minutes News Lists Performing Smoking Bags Weed Marijuana Good News Trash Bad News Smoking Weed Smokin Weed

Author:Amy Poehler

“The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.”

Firsts Past Dark Heard Ten Horse Distance Lists Posts Triumph Favourite Careless Sweeping Dark Horse

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled; in a wheelchair; hare lip; ethnic minorities; handicapped; spinster; committed suicide; gypsies; Bombay; illegitimate daughter; air hostess; Siamese twins; Calcutta; deaf ears; illegal asylum seeker; province of Northern Ireland; grandmother; bachelor.”

“Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.”

Might School Female Worthy Lists Propriety Patronage

Book:Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted

Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted

“Damn it, there are so many idiots whose asses I have to kick! I'll have to start carrying a list just to keep track of 'em all!”

Track Lists Ass Idiot Damn Kicks Ems

Author:Hiromu Arakawa

“I could stay depressed about my bad memory, but that's a negative way to live. Let's look on the bright side and list the advantages of having a bad memory. (1) You can reread a book and see a movie over and over and enjoy it as much as the first time. (2) If you make an inconvenient promise, you can pretend that you forgot about it and still be forgiven. (3) This is the most important thing: you can keep coming up with ideas without being held back by convictions or the past.”

“When I was a boy, my grandfather taught me the list of kings: Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius the Elder, Servius Tullius. Tarquinius the Proud was to be the last, the very last, cast out and replaced forever by something called a republic. A mockery! A mistake! An experiment that failed! Today is the republic’s final day. Tomorrow, men will shout in the Forum, ‘All hail King Coriolanus!”

Men Today Lasts Mistake Boys Forever Taught Proud Kings Tomorrow Finals Casts Lists Experiments Republic Grandfather Replaced Elders My Grandfather Mockery Hail Forums Romulus

Book:Roma: A Novel of Ancient Rome

Source: Roma: A Novel of Ancient Rome

“Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.”

Source: Selected Essays of John Berger

“I learned that faith isn’t about knowing all of the right stuff or obeying a list of rules. It’s something more, something more costly because it involves being present and making a sacrifice.”

Stuff Knowing Sacrifice Lists Obeying Right Stuff

Book:Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

Source: Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that happened this day that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life. If you can learn to focus on what you have, you will always see that the universe is abundant; you will have more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never have enough.”

Ifs Life Enough Night Universe Change Learning Five Focus Happened Perspective Grateful Lists This Day Every Night Journal

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. Sure, any given feature list can be implemented, given enough coding time. But in addition to coming out late, you will usually wind up with a codebase that is so fragile that new ideas that should be dead-simple wind up taking longer and longer to work into the tangled existing web. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.”

“Everything you do is a seed that you sow. Seed bad, harvest bad. Seed good, harvest good. And the list goes on and on.”

Motivational Energy Goes On Seeds Lists Harvest Positive Energy Bad Seed

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer! List, ye landsmen all, to me; Messmates, hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea.”

Sea Danger Brother Lists Cease Rude Sailor

Author:George Alex Stevens

“Government barriers on Business For example, the Endangered Species Act prevents 'disturbing the habitat' of the spotted owl. That has restricted 4.2 million acres of forest from development, leading to the loss of 30,000 lumber-related jobs and the annual loss of 1.1 billion board feet of lumber. This has driven up the cost of houses by at least $4,000 each. In addition, regulators ordered a Kansas City bank to install a Braille keypad on its drive-through automatic teller machine, presumably to aid any blind drivers. The list goes on and on.”

“People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.”

People Sometimes Film Stars Fine Proud Actresses Lists Movie Star

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.”

Years Wells Done Effort Half Draws Decided Lists Dozen Skiing Skiers

Author:Edmund Hillary

“With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice. Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.”

“Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge.”

Years Numbers Notes Lists Nobel Large Numbers Cambridge

Author:John Pople

“As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights.”

Humans Certain Individual Social Numbers Rights Economic Human Rights Lists Participation Declaration

Author:Rene Cassin

“I can't recall ever once having seen the name of a market timer on Forbes' annual list of the richest people in the world. If it were truly possible to predict corrections, you'd think somebody would have made billions by doing it.”

People Ifs Thinking World Made I Can Names Lists Billions Recalls Corrections Annuals Forbes Timer Market Timing

Author:Peter Lynch

“In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists or even a coherent philosophy or dogma, it is difficult to define or measure the unorganized New Age movement. But in every major U.S. and European city, thousands who seek insight and personal growth cluster around a metaphysical bookstore, a spiritual teacher, or an education center.”

“Our supportfor assault weapons ban is very broad...I think we've got all the police, we have all the mayors virtually - the conference of mayors, mayors against guns. We have medical experts, we have virtually dozens of religious organizations of every creed supporting us. We have just lists and lists.”

Thinking Religious Weapons Gun Organization Police Medical Lists Experts Broads Dozen Creeds Assault Conferences Bans Mayors Second Amendment Assault Weapons Assault Weapons Ban

Author:Dianne Feinstein

“This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills.”

Years Lines Cost Direct Bills Customers Lists Administration Introducing Legislation Items Compliance Indirect Direct And Indirect

Author:Cathy McMorris Rodgers

“From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire. Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes - perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars: how they will wield The mighty frame: how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb.”

“The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.”

Stills Book Learning Ears Tongue Lists Load Blockheads Lumber

Book:The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials

Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials

“To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.”

Seems Failing Lists Accomplishment Outsiders

Author:Junot Diaz

“The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods.”

Process Business Method Lists Application

Author:Seth Godin

“When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.”

Mother Security Danger Ready Overcoming Safety Lists Temptation Gates Distrust

Book:Precious remedies against Satan's devices: being a companion for Christians of all denominations

Source: Precious remedies against Satan's devices: being a companion for Christians of all denominations

“I have my hands full with my kids and so romance is not high on my list of priorities.”

Hands Kids Romance Lists Priorities

Author:Pamela Anderson

“They head the list of bad to bet on: But I insist they're worse to get on”

Lists Gambling Betting

Author:Richard Armour

“In America you're conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ's sake?”

Sometimes Care America Winning Christ Ten Regard Sake Lists Tennis Nuts Contests Who Cares Best Dressed

Author:Arthur Ashe

“There is no definitive list of the duties of a stage manager that is applicable to all theaters and staging environments. Regardless of specific duties, however, the stage manager is the individual who accepts responsibility for the smooth running of rehearsals and performances, on stage and backstage.”

Running Individual Responsibility Accepting Environment Stage Duty Performances Theater Theatre Lists Managers Smooth Rehearsal Staging Stage Managers

Author:Laurence Sterne

“I could list of dozens things my fiancee does that annoys me and I'm sure he could list off hundreds of things about me but the fact is that even through all that we love each other. We love each other in spite of our flaws and despite all the things we do that should make us hate each other we still continue to fall deeper in love. Sometimes we want to hate each other but for two people who are truly in love it simply isn't possible. Not even a little but, not even at all.”

People Want Should Littles Doe Stills Two Sometimes Facts Hate Fall Deeper Lists Despite Spite Flaws Annoying Dozen Romantic Love Love Each Other Fiancee

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“I don't know whether Europe will accept us, but Africa has already put us on their waiting list.”

Knows Waiting Accepting Europe Lists

Author:Minimaks