Categories Starting with “C”

“When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.”

— Bill Gates

“When we can demonstrate that we can take off horizontally and put something into orbit, then we can begin to talk about increasing the amount of payload. But to say, 'I'm going to do that and put people into orbit' is a real leap.”

— Buzz Aldrin

“If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.”

— Noam Chomsky

“India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.”

— Bill Gates

“A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.”

— Horace

“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.”

— Victor Hugo

“In general, when moviemakers talk to scientists, they usually see them as a resource to solve particular technical problems or script problems for them. So, something like: what sort of weaponry would aliens be able to wield?”

— Seth Shostak

“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”

— Sigmund Freud

“You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are afraid. You can't entertain a man who has no food.”

— Bob Marley

“You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.”

— Bruce Lee

“All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.”

— Gloria Steinem

“I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.”

— Anne Frank

“It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.”

— Marcel Proust

“All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.”

— Albert Camus

“Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.”

— Malala Yousafzai

“It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.”

— Maya Angelou

“I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods - three big windows look out into the trees.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.”

— Angela Davis

“It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.”

— Stephen Hawking