Douglas Edwards quotes

Douglas Edwards quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I had started at a small startup as a big-company guy. Now I was leaving a big company as a small-startup guy.”
-- Douglas Edwards

Source : Douglas Edwards (2011). “I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59”, p.559, Penguin UK

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“Love is a sensation caused by temptation when a guy sticks his location into a girl's destination to increase the population for the next generation. Do you understand my explanation or do you need a demonstration?”
“But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.”
“The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.”
“Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah.”
“There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.”
“Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and ran together again, leaving a watery film over his ruined face.”
“The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.”
“Glamour: the indefinable something about a girl with a big bosom.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I realized that even big waves start with small ripples”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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