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Arthur Helps Quotes

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: July 10, 1813 - March 7, 1875

Topics

Myself Book Rest Sitting Little

But I was always a bit of a gypsy, anyway. I spent five years at Oklahoma State, five years at Miami and moved on after winning the national championship, and five years with the Cowboys. So, I was ready to move on. We won back-to-back Super Bowls, and I felt that I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish.

Winning Miami Accomplish Ready Years

I'm a capitalist. I'm not going to feel sympathetic to people leading a life they don't have to lead who, with effort, could maybe break out of it.

Life Effort People Feel Out Break

I've gone through a whole series of careers where something started as a hobby of some kind. Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

Hobby Kind Everything Gone Something

I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.

Nature You Entrepreneur Optimist

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

Good Home Purpose Go Will Try

Atari is a very sad story.

Sad Story Very Atari Sad Story

Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.

Car Simple Man Driving Racing Fast

My childhood was great, my family was great. I wasn't in a mansion, but we made it work.

Work Family Great Childhood Made

One of the great things about the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which my company iRobot designed, is that it's too cheap not to be autonomous.

Great Great Things Robot Cheap About

There can sometimes be this fear among laypeople: 'I don't understand everything in science perfectly, so I just can't say anything about it.' I think it's good to know that we scientists are also confused some of the time.

Good Fear Science Time Think Know

Looking back at it now, it's almost overwhelming, the amount of work that went into writing 'Shine', and to come up with the ideas that we're doing now.

Joshua Ostrander

Work Ideas Shine Looking Back Doing

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

Wife Me American Accent Foreign

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