For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
PAUL GRAHAM Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept b...
PAUL GRAHAM What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task a...
PAUL GRAHAM A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've alread...
PAUL GRAHAM There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.
PAUL GRAHAM Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be ju...
PAUL GRAHAM Startups often have to do dubious things.
PAUL GRAHAM When Facebook first started, and it was just a social directory for undergrads at Harvard, it would ...
PAUL GRAHAM If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard ...
PAUL GRAHAM It's hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but what...
PAUL GRAHAM For [a product] to surprise me, it must be satisfying expectations I didn't know I had. No focus gro...
PAUL GRAHAM Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they d...
PAUL GRAHAM Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept b...
PAUL GRAHAM If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.
PAUL GRAHAM Because hackers are makers rather than scientists, the right place to look for metaphors is not in t...
PAUL GRAHAM The Summer Founders Program fixes the common problem with working at a startup, which is that it's v...
PAUL GRAHAM In previous elections, we've had voting stations overrun by panicky mobs, and there's been a bit mor...
PAUL GRAHAM It is clear that a substantial section of the public believes what she did was undermining good gove...
PAUL GRAHAM Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get f...
PAUL GRAHAM Nerds just don't happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they d...
PAUL GRAHAM Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete pr...
PAUL GRAHAM At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them...
PAUL GRAHAM If you disagree with something, it's easier to say 'you suck' than to figure out and explain exactly...
PAUL GRAHAM You know your business model is broken when you're suing your customers.
PAUL GRAHAM Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
GRAHAM I am more vintage than I am high fashion.
KAT GRAHAM Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you ...
BILLY GRAHAM God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM Everyone loves to fly, and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are thi...
GRAHAM HAWKES There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into acti...
MARTHA GRAHAM I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is...
BILLY GRAHAM Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Ra...
GRAHAM BROWN Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be ex...
GRAHAM GREENE The only sin is mediocrity.
MARTHA GRAHAM Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
BILLY GRAHAM To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and t...
KAT GRAHAM I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
KAT GRAHAM I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomor...
KAT GRAHAM I love outdoor winter activities like snow tubing and snowball throwing.
KAT GRAHAM I just don't drink alcohol. I never have; I never will.
KAT GRAHAM My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been ...
KAT GRAHAM I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
KAT GRAHAM I used to read the criticism on blogs about other people - mostly female actresses and singers - and...
KAT GRAHAM I'm all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summe...
KAT GRAHAM I love to add '90s trends mixed with modern day pieces I find along my many travels. Like these ...
KAT GRAHAM On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.
KAT GRAHAM I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of wha...
KAT GRAHAM I'm a smoky eye girl. I love playing with eye colors, metallics... fun stuff!
KAT GRAHAM Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and e...
KAT GRAHAM I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at le...
KAT GRAHAM When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bull...
KAT GRAHAM I'm into Gucci a lot, like vintage '70s everything. I'm into Versace.
KAT GRAHAM You make your mark by being true to who you are and letting that be your staple.
KAT GRAHAM I'm a traditionalist, so for me, black coffee is cool.
GRAHAM ELLIOT I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one...
GRAHAM SWIFT I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to ...
LAURIE GRAHAM My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother's ...
KATHARINE GRAHAM One of the outstanding sources of resistance to imperial power in the Muslim world came from Sufi gr...
GRAHAM FULLER In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they...
GRAHAM GREENE I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a brib...
GRAHAM GREENE The little girl had the making of a poet in her who, being told to be sure of her meaning before she...
GRAHAM WALLAS Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
BILLY GRAHAM Every human being is under construction from conception to death.
BILLY GRAHAM My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
BILLY GRAHAM What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about th...
BILLY GRAHAM Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.
BILLY GRAHAM The organization that I joined when I went to work, the trade association called the Bureau of Adver...
KATHARINE GRAHAM Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.
BILLY GRAHAM I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you'll sit still and behave unt...
LAURIE GRAHAM When I was a kid in the mid-'60s, I was what's known as a moddie boy, a prototype skinhead. ...
GRAHAM PARKER Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
JAMES GRAHAM If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other ...
BILLY GRAHAM People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs...
GRAHAM GREENE Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious ...
GRAHAM NORTON I still run into people in the business who skip over any other credits I have and say, 'I loved...
GRAHAM YOST Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a...
LINDSEY GRAHAM I remember when we were shooting 'Boogie Nights,' all of my stand-ins were wiping out all th...
HEATHER GRAHAM I do have the roller skates from 'Boogie Nights.'
HEATHER GRAHAM Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
JAMES GRAHAM As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mo...
STEPHEN GRAHAM People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it need...
GRAHAM GREENE Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unfor...
GRAHAM GREENE The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...
BILLY GRAHAM I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God bogg...
GRAHAM GREENE This is a very scary trend. In the past, people could say, 'It's not in my neighborhood and I don't ...
AARON GRAHAM This is a very scary trend.
AARON GRAHAM The average suspect works by himself, is a male, is white, and is in his mid 20s.
AARON GRAHAM I used to do it undercover for many years for the government, so I can tell you how simple it is.
AARON GRAHAM We make the decisions based on the best information available. No doubt, that information has gotten...
AARON GRAHAM For a time in high school, I had glasses, braces, and a cast. I like to call this look 'no date ...
LAUREN GRAHAM It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENE One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
GRAHAM GREENE There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never ...
MARTHA GRAHAM God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a ...
GRAHAM HANCOCK If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly cho...
GRAHAM GREENE I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sens...
GRAHAM BROWN There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and ther...
MARTHA GRAHAM We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE We need a new system, I think, (for) both the public and ministers themselves, who come under pretty...
ALISTAIR GRAHAM does not imply any erosion of the rights of Orangemen in Portadown.
ALISTAIR GRAHAM We see the need to break the cycle in 1998.
ALISTAIR GRAHAM to wreck all the gains of the last few months.
ALISTAIR GRAHAM We cannot ignore the importance of perceptions in Northern Ireland, and there is now a clear emergin...
ALISTAIR GRAHAM All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth li...
MARTHA GRAHAM I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to ...
MARTHA GRAHAM There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into actio...
MARTHA GRAHAM Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of thei...
MARTHA GRAHAM There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into actio...
MARTHA GRAHAM Dance is the hidden language of the soul
MARTHA GRAHAM Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamon...
GRAHAM GREENE I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain...
GRAHAM GREENE Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
RUTH GRAHAM I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't t...
GRAHAM GREENE I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your gener...
GRAHAM CHAPMAN When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
BILLY GRAHAM In the act of creation there is always, it seems, an awful selfishness.
GRAHAM GREENE Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
GRAHAM GREENE Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
GRAHAM GREENE Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not agains...
GRAHAM GREENE America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of...
MARTHA GRAHAM He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To ...
JAMES GRAHAM Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
BILLY GRAHAM America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we...
BILLY GRAHAM It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie ou...
GRAHAM GREENE Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There ...
GRAHAM GREENE I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively,...
GRAHAM SWIFT The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because ...
BILLY GRAHAM No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross...
BILLY GRAHAM Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby ...
BILLY GRAHAM Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of ...
GRAHAM GREENE God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
BILLY GRAHAM America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's gr...
BILLY GRAHAM You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exu...
SHEILAH GRAHAM Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing...
GORDON GRAHAM He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
GRAHAM GREENE In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENE If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the fai...
GRAHAM GREENE Failure too is a form of death...
GRAHAM GREENE His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse.
GRAHAM GREENE Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
BILLY GRAHAM To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?
KATHERINE GRAHAM I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
BILLY GRAHAM Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just th...
HARRY GRAHAM However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a ma...
GRAHAM GREENE When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.
VIRGINIA GRAHAM God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning o...
GRAHAM GREENE Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
GRAHAM GREENE Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves again...
GRAHAM GREENE A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to hi...
GRAHAM GREENE Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgi...
GRAHAM GREENE Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
MARTHA GRAHAM We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the sp...
MARTHA GRAHAM Nothing is more revealing than movement.
MARTHA GRAHAM Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality goods.
GRAHAM GREENE A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that n...
GRAHAM GREENE When we are not sure, we are alive.
GRAHAM GREENE Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.
GRAHAM GREENE If you love your customer to death, you can't go wrong.
GRAHAM DAY I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bri...
GRAHAM GREENE There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that ...
GORDON GRAHAM Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE We mustn't complain too much of being comedians -- it's an honorable profession. If only we could be...
GRAHAM GREENE Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
MARTHA GRAHAM We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the s...
MARTHA GRAHAM You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let...
MARTHA GRAHAM Competition creates better products, alliances create better companies.
BRIAN GRAHAM Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
BILLY GRAHAM Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they...
BILLY GRAHAM Those who marry God can become domesticated too -- it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the other...
GRAHAM GREENE Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or...
GRAHAM GREENE All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rut...
GRAHAM SWIFT Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
MARTHA GRAHAM The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.
COLLIER GRAHAM Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim
GRAHAM GREENE There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. -Graham Green.
GRAHAM GREEN Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint ...
GRAHAM GREENE Good people are always so sure they're right.
BARBARA GRAHAM The body says what words cannot.
MARTHA GRAHAM The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
MARTHA GRAHAM The body is a sacred garment.
MARTHA GRAHAM Although at the time I didn't realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that m...
KATHARINE GRAHAM No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
KATHARINE GRAHAM No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our chil...
BILLY GRAHAM The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our m...
LINDSEY GRAHAM I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That...
KAT GRAHAM The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do ...
GRAHAM SWIFT I love being on tour; I love being on the road. It's the most amazing feeling ever. I live for i...
KAT GRAHAM I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets.
GRAHAM CHAPMAN You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry.
GRAHAM KENNEDY It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.
GRAHAM CHAPMAN The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new mor...
BILLY GRAHAM Alan Turing is so important to me and to the world, and his story is so important to be told, so it ...
GRAHAM MOORE Telling Alan Turing's story in a two-hour film was a tremendous challenge. It felt in some small...
GRAHAM MOORE I had been a lifelong Alan Turing obsessive. Among incredibly nerdy teenagers, without a lot of frie...
GRAHAM MOORE Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little...
BILLY GRAHAM Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get do...
BILLY GRAHAM 'Mom' isn't an adjective or a personality; they're not all the same.
LAUREN GRAHAM