"How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill."

-- Henry Wotton

#Truth Quotes #Honesty Quotes #Skills Quotes

“Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.”
“I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.”

Source : Romain Gary (1987). “Promise at Dawn”, p.19, New Directions Publishing
“Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow. Well, perhaps you are right. Perhaps the wise spurn one to remain safe from the other, but I should rather choose to have my eyes burnt in their sockets than to have been born without.”
“Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.”
“The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.”
“She was the only creature in the world who would really care if something happened to me, even if it was only because I was the bringer of kibble.”

Source : Rosemary Clement-Moore (2010). “The Splendour Falls”, p.92, Random House
“Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause more wars and more death and more destruction to the soul and to human life than anything else.”
“We see a lot of startup companies, people that have a home-based office, they've been working out of their basement for two or three years, and now their basement or kids cannot accommodate them any longer.”

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