#at

Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be cross all of them. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#cross #goal #our #platform #them

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#goes #great #great writer #hustler #loud

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one. ↗

— William Goldman

#humor #luck #education

The most important phase of a child’s life was the beginning of it. He must be started right. ↗

— Caroline Pratt

#education #progressive-education #education

I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #death

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. ↗

— John Updike

#baby #coat #gold #like #longer

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#basis #build #music #our #partnership

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell." (America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine, August 1938) ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#double-standards #empowerment #inequality #prison #women

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#death #desirable #even #frequently #human

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. ↗

— John Updike

#adult #bore #consumes #each #half