"A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first."

-- Pierre Salinger

#Funny Things Quotes #Way Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“In this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.”

Source : "The Jobs Agenda". Bob Taft's State of the State Address, 2004.
“I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.”

Source : Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.63, Random House
“You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.”
“I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me”
“I find it odd that, in real life people think I am funny but no one ever suspects that on the page! Personally, I think some of my work is a riot! I crack myself up, but I know that the poems seem so relentlessly dark.”
“Alzheimer's caregivers are heroes.”

Source : "Leeza Gibbons’ Resources for Alzheimer’s Caregivers" by Marie Marley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2014.
“You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative.”
“The single most important top-level trend is the shift to mobile.”

Source : "Bartiromo: Yelp's Max Levchin sees mobile as path to growth". Interview with Maria Bartiromo, www.usatoday.com. August 19, 2012.

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