Graham Moore > Quotes

“General Electric.' It has a rather nice ring to it, doesn't it?”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Inept lying was almost as good as honesty.”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“All stories are love stories. Paul remembered someone famous saying that. Thomas Edison’s would be no exception. All men get the things they love. The tragedy of some men is not that they are denied, but that they wish they’d loved something else.”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Where the first America was brilliant, the second was ingenious. What”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Women now seek to involve themselves in the life of their government because their government has involved itself in their lives!”
― Graham Moore, The Sherlockian

“It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. T. Edison

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. T. Edison

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. Buckminster Fuller

Be alone: that is the secret of invention. Be alone: that is when ideas are born. N.Tesla

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do. Steve Jobs

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you, because bad news is a headline and gradual improvement is now. Bill Gates

If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. Steve Jobs

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. A.G.Bell

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. B. Franklin

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. A.Einstein

That's been one of my mantras: focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean, to make it simple. But is's worth it in the end, because once you get there, you can move mountains. Steve Jobs

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work. T. Edison

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday. Steve Jobs”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“would first meet Thomas Edison, Paul watched a man burn”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. —KARL POPPER A”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people. —STEVE JOBS”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Such people could afford to choose for themselves what to be miserable about.”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Chicago will forever be in my heart,” she said. “It is the Paris of the Middle West.”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“The ratio of words uttered to substance communicated rose, minute by minute, to unfathomable levels.”
― Graham Moore, The Wealth of Shadows

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Maya repeated Wayne’s words back to him. “ ‘Because she looks honest.’ ” “That’s what”
― Graham Moore, The Holdout

“Edison and a few others had been working on improvements to Alexander Bell’s initial “telephone” device. Tesla was attempting to make the devices work without the aid of any wires at all. One didn’t have to be much of a scientist to know that this was absurd. Even if by some miracle Tesla managed to make them function, who in the world would have any use for them?”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. —CHARLES F. KETTERING, INVENTOR OF THE ELECTRICAL STARTER”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“snake litigating with its own tail.”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Agnes’s”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Paul was an attorney. And this was what his as yet brief career in the law had done to his brain. He was comforted by minutiae. His mortal fears could be assuaged only by an encyclopedic command of detail. Paul”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it. —NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. —STEVE JOBS”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. —JAMES WATSON, CO-DISCOVERER OF DNA”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“He would have achieved victory and rebellion at the same time.”
― Graham Moore, The Sherlockian

“Luigi di Cesnola?” Morgan asked. “I’m afraid I don’t,” said Paul. “Sardinian, but he came here in the fifties. Fought in the war.”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday. —STEVE JOBS”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Surely the plague of lawyers is a worse plague of Egypt than the pharaohs ever knew.”
― Graham Moore, The Wealth of Shadows

“Arthur and Bram stood on Bridge Street, just across from the
Jews’ Burial Ground. Though it was quite dark, they could still
make out a few of the tallest headstones, chipped and ragged,
illuminated by the lights of the workhouse behind them. They
heard the groans of drunks from somewhere beyond, and from the
large road they heard the faint pitter-patter of prostitutes’ feet
along the dirt. Arthur had not planned this return to the East End,
to be sure. But now that he was here, and had been venturing here
for the past two days, he realized that of course there was nowhere
else for this matter to properly end.”
― Graham Moore

“מאז ומעולם רצה פול להיות עילוי. אבל מה שאיש מעולם לא אמר לו הוא שעילויים לא מרגישים כמו עילויים; הם מרגישים זקנים. הם מרגישים לשעבר בדיוק ברגע שנאמר עליהם שהם פורחים. כשמשבחים אותם על פריחתם המוקדמת או על תבונתם הרעננה, הם מבטלים זאת במשיכת כתף, מכיוון שבלבם הם יודעים שהם זקנים ומרקיבים. רק בשלב מאוחר יותר, אחרי ששנים של הישגים שיחררו אותם מחוסר הביטחון שלהם, יודיעו להם שהם כבר לא עילויים, אלא סתם הצלחות מזהירות. והם יתכווצו. כי רק אז, בדמדומי שיאם, הם מכירים בכך שהם עילויים אמיתיים.”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“I hope the United States will keep out of this war. I believe that it will. And I give you assurance and reassurance that every effort of your government will be directed toward that end.” Did the president know of the plots developing within his own administration? Was he aware that what he was saying was, strictly speaking, untrue? “As long as it remains within my power to prevent, there will be no blackout of peace in the United States.”
― Graham Moore, The Wealth of Shadows

“You think I have to identify with Bobby Nock in all this. That our blackness is the most defining feature about us. It’s okay, Maya. It doesn’t make you a racist. This is the craziest thing about good, well-intentioned white people, isn’t it? What lengths you’ll go to not to come off as in any way racist. Heavens! So instead of saying, ‘Bobby is a man and Trisha is a woman, so they don’t have much in common,’ you’re saying, ‘Bobby is black and Trisha is black, so that must be what they have in common.’ What’s the salient feature? The defining part of an object?”
― Graham Moore, The Holdout