"I always kind of just went ahead and tried thingsâ€¦"

-- Pierre Omidyar

“I thought I would keep it on the ground until I became familiar with it, but on account of the wind, I unexpectedly took to the air, and the first thing I knew, I was flying.”
“One of the many quotes on love..."Love can come only with time and sentience. We learn it as we learn language--and some never learn it well. Love is like a tool, though it is not a tool; something strange and wonderful to use, difficult to master, and mysterious in its provenance.”
“When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year.”
“We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.”

Source : Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.26, American Foundation for the Blind
“Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.”
“I think every guy and girl would love to get to play Superman, at some point in their life.”

Source : Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2013.
“In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.”
“Horror films had died a little bit before Scream came around. That was one of the reasons I wrote it. I wanted to write something that wasn't being made right now and maybe sell if I come up with a new horror film. Because no one is watching those movies. Let's do it. That was my whole goal, and it paid off. I feel like it's never stopped.”

Source : Source: collider.com

You may also like:

Glenn Greenwald
Journalist
Jeff Bezos
Entrepreneur
Jeffrey Skoll
Engineer
Jeremy Scahill
Editor
John Donahoe
Laura Poitras
Film director
Matt Taibbi
Author
Meg Whitman
Business person
Michael Dell
Author