#things

I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second. ↗

— John Irving

#already #been #debut #found #good

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep. ↗

— John Irving

#child #few #few things #real #real world

I just look at the high and bright side of things. ↗

— LL Cool J

#high #i #just #look #right side

Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#between #board #business #conflict #create

I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#charging #consumers #content #discipline #forces

When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#err #get #go #gut #honest

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#confluence #culture #happened #know #sort

The things that got me through grade school are helping me out later in life. It's like, I show up on time. If you buy a ticket to one of my shows, I'll show up. I'll be there. And if it says 10:00, I'll be on stage at 10:00. ↗

— Chris Isaak

#got #grade #grade school #helping #i

There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter? ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#clone #extent #fate #find #how

If I would have listened, if I would have understood diabetes like I understood music, maybe these things wouldn't have happened. ↗

— Marvin Isley

#happened #i #like #listened #maybe