Categories Starting with “C”

“I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

“Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“My mother did not like children.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

“Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?”

— Diogenes

“What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“He that hath knowledge spareth his words.”

— Francis Bacon

“We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we're moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

“If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.”

— Confucius

“You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind.”

— Muhammad Ali

“Sending greeting cards to aliens is hardly a new idea. In 2005, Craigslist solicited messages for broadcast to space by a transmitter in Florida, and in 2008, NASA beamed a Beatles song to the North Star (Polaris), on the assumption that any putative Polarians would appreciate the Fab Four's 1960s-genre compositions.”

— Seth Shostak

“The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?”

— Anne Frank

“The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.”

— Confucius

“In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.”

— John F. Kennedy

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.”

— Steve Jobs

“Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.”

— Bill Gates