Extra Quotes

Don't sleep too much. If you sleep three hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in. (Aristotle Onassis)
They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up. View quote
Daniel Wallace
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over animation. One can either see or be seen. View quote
John Updike
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. View quote
Muhammad Ali
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. View quote
Federico García Lorca
It's never crowded along the extra mile. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
In business the 80/20 principle is behind any innovation, any extra value. It is an entrepreneurial principle, a formula for value creation utilized not only by entrepreneurs, but by most managers and organizations. View quote
Richard Koch
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning. View quote
Denis Waitley
Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year. (Polly Toynbee)
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. View quote
Roger Staubach
I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense. View quote
Charles Darwin
You see my adjutant made rather a silly mistake. He hadn't had much truck with boots before and the silly fellow thought they were extra rations. My men ate the whole bag of tricks last night. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Open platforms and experimental amateurs ... eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. ... Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether. View quote
Cory Doctorow
Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will. View quote
George Eliot
There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. View quote
Sylvia Plath
Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without putting yourself to any extra trouble. View quote
Steven Brust
The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra. View quote
Gertrude Stein
And for any agents or proxy of the regime interested in asking me questions face to face, I've got some bullets slathered in pork fat to make you feel extra special welcome. (Eric S. Raymond)
If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year. View quote
Steve Jobs
I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run, he's fuzzy, get out of here. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
It seems that a lot of people, who haven't known of me as a pianist, think I've just started off as a comedian. And so for them the piano was something extra. But, of course, playing the piano was something that came before all of what's happened now. View quote
Dudley Moore
Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of Italian political life he is ready upon cold request to provide an inquiry brief refined in the most minute details is a nice comfort. But also a bit unsettling. The day I asked him if in that archive, into which no one is allowed to stick their nose, there were a brief with my name on it, Marco changed the subject. View quote
Indro Montanelli