c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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2,930	66,842	There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.	David Puttnam	teacher
7,184	4,813	Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.	James Truslow Adams	attitude
2,719	46,371	God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.	Magic Johnson	mom
8,689	54,438	So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.	June Jordan	poetry
6,607	21,938	I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.	J. K. Rowling	fear
2,037	4,801	Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.	Morris Raphael Cohen	attitude
6,846	68,843	Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.	Molly Ivins	time
1,862	69,506	The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.	Kenneth Koch	travel
7,094	57,729	You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.	Tony Kushner	relationship
5,947	7,681	I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.	Richard M. Nixon	business
8,714	23,940	It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to think about it. If you are starving, you become interested in food. If you are struggling to pay the bills, money becomes tragically important.	Sebastian Junger	food
2,882	3,275	Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.	Richard Savage	anger
4,547	59,919	To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.	Ariel Sharon	respect
7,930	51,968	Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?	Daisaku Ikeda	nature
1,430	74,139	The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.	Joseph Ratzinger	women
3,643	1,321	The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.	Mao Zedong	alone
7,509	8,757	Parking is a nightmare for me... I still have sensors on my car that help me park.	Jordana Brewster	car
4,535	50,453	On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.	David Bowie	music
9,709	936	To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.	Michael Haneke	age
3,495	36,414	You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.	Johnny Vegas	hope
10,957	29,699	But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.	Deepak Chopra	good
189	63,797	You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.	Joe DiMaggio	sports
7,483	60,923	I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.	Peter Ustinov	sad
9,188	19,179	Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.	Martin Luther	faith
6,148	1,338	Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.	Eliot Engel	alone
1,852	34,489	After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.	Bob Woodward	history
6,627	50,232	Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.	Berthold Auerbach	music
9,391	7,277	I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.	Debbie Macomber	birthday
6,318	41,835	We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.	Ken Calvert	legal
8,471	54,379	I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.	David Antin	poetry
10,916	55,038	There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.	Benjamin Disraeli	politics
6,692	72,523	My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.	Socrates	wedding
908	69,359	The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.	Zach Braff	travel
5,596	31,328	The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.	Ray Bradbury	great
8,402	7,917	I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.	Tony Campolo	business
3,761	36,398	Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.	Josh Hartnett	hope
6,416	74,671	I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.	Thomas A. Edison	work
4,323	53,921	Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.	William Hazlitt	poetry
5,036	52,724	When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.	Cory Booker	patriotism
9,164	75,139	A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.	Sholom Aleichem	work
7,413	3,567	Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.	Goldwin Smith	architecture
6,409	6,511	Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.	George Orwell	best
647	73,351	Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.	Steve Albini	wisdom
6,698	21,451	I do not like being famous. I like being normal.	Vince Gill	famous
6,886	20,479	I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.	David Hockney	family
1,161	15,205	Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.	Paracelsus	dreams
8,601	55,662	You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people.	Dennis Kucinich	politics
9,276	27,913	When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?	Gilbert K. Chesterton	god
10,414	55,074	You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.	Charles Bukowski	politics
8,024	44,002	Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.	Stephen Leacock	marriage
10,419	33,441	Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.	Nicholas D. Kristof	health
2,253	30,448	Let's be honest about this the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.	Alveda King	government
1,800	7,994	We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.	Jon Bon Jovi	business
4,118	26,495	Gotta stay in the gym, stay funny, stay sharp. I just love working.	Marlon Wayans	funny
468	54,686	And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.	Hart Crane	poetry
3,093	48,506	When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.	Ernie Banks	morning
5,577	47,726	Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.	Suze Orman	money
11,736	71,983	All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.	Jerry Saltz	war
8,338	20,568	That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.	Peter Singer	family
10,187	23,821	I suppose women are attracted to the bad-boy image sometimes because it's fun to have an adventure. It's like eating junk food... it's fun at the time, but ultimately not the best choice.	Dita Von Teese	food
2,076	14,658	Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.	Robert Hughes	design
6,567	1,135	It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.	George Washington	alone
5,730	56,634	The measure of a man is what he does with power.	Plato	power
8,825	15,884	Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.	Albert Einstein	education
6,343	37,142	It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.	Michelle Williams	humor
1,176	9,671	The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.	Leonardo DiCaprio	change
5,761	14,388	I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.	Kate Moss	design
6,223	19,853	I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.	Mary Ann Mobley	faith
5,895	64,469	Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.	Og Mandino	strength
11,392	14,310	This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.	Isaac Mizrahi	design
174	55,191	I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.	Chester Brown	politics
7,383	55,787	Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.	W. Clement Stone	positive
7,975	50,003	I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.	Sam Mendes	movies
1,268	27,883	Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.	William Shakespeare	god
3,985	9,835	Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.	William Hague	change
10,493	59,628	To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.	Hugh Jackman	respect
6,032	69,478	I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.	John Galliano	travel
4,243	39,678	Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.	Matthew Simpson	knowledge
6,872	39,681	If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.	Matthew Simpson	knowledge
4,747	21,053	Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.	Annette Bening	famous
11,117	48,174	It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.	Colin Powell	morning
6,557	48,477	I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.	Stella McCartney	morning
2,339	28,407	All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.	Thomas Browne	god
6,665	7,117	You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'	Jerry Seinfeld	birthday
7,568	10,286	We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.	Oliver Joseph Lodge	communication
1,307	18,197	I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.	Tim Robbins	experience
7,207	35,508	I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.	Robert Carlyle	home
428	18,552	This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.	Henry A. Wallace	failure
4,681	18,355	There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.	George Eliot	failure
1,112	69,849	Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.	James Dean	trust
3,645	13,508	Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.	Henry Ward Beecher	death
1,454	46,891	I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.	Carol Leifer	mom
10,803	68,665	A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.	Abraham Joshua Heschel	time
10,770	31,064	The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.	Robert Frost	great
9,438	49,612	My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.	Jane Fonda	movies
10,464	66,778	I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.	Jon Hamm	teacher
6,631	3,502	The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.	John Irving	architecture
291	75,578	Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.	Ralph W. Sockman	christmas
10,169	37,488	Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.	Blaise Pascal	imagination
3,366	71,054	Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.	Alexander Pope	truth

2,930

66,842

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

David Puttnam

teacher

7,184

4,813

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

James Truslow Adams

attitude

2,719

46,371

God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.

Magic Johnson

mom

8,689

54,438

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

June Jordan

poetry

6,607

21,938

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

J. K. Rowling

fear

2,037

4,801

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.

Morris Raphael Cohen

attitude

6,846

68,843

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.

Molly Ivins

time

1,862

69,506

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

Kenneth Koch

travel

7,094

57,729

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

Tony Kushner

relationship

5,947

7,681

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Richard M. Nixon

business

8,714

23,940

It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to think about it. If you are starving, you become interested in food. If you are struggling to pay the bills, money becomes tragically important.

Sebastian Junger

food

2,882

3,275

Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.

Richard Savage

anger

4,547

59,919

To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.

Ariel Sharon

respect

7,930

51,968

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

Daisaku Ikeda

nature

1,430

74,139

The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

Joseph Ratzinger

women

3,643

1,321

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

Mao Zedong

alone

7,509

8,757

Parking is a nightmare for me... I still have sensors on my car that help me park.

Jordana Brewster

car

4,535

50,453

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

David Bowie

music

9,709

936

To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.

Michael Haneke

age

3,495

36,414

You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.

Johnny Vegas

hope

10,957

29,699

But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.

Deepak Chopra

good

189

63,797

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

Joe DiMaggio

sports

7,483

60,923

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

Peter Ustinov

sad

9,188

19,179

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Martin Luther

faith

6,148

1,338

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

Eliot Engel

alone

1,852

34,489

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

Bob Woodward

history

6,627

50,232

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Berthold Auerbach

music

9,391

7,277

I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.

Debbie Macomber

birthday

6,318

41,835

We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.

Ken Calvert

legal

8,471

54,379

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

David Antin

poetry

10,916

55,038

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.

Benjamin Disraeli

politics

6,692

72,523

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

wedding

908

69,359

The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.

Zach Braff

travel

5,596

31,328

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Ray Bradbury

great

8,402

7,917

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

Tony Campolo

business

3,761

36,398

Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.

Josh Hartnett

hope

6,416

74,671

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

Thomas A. Edison

work

4,323

53,921

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

William Hazlitt

poetry

5,036

52,724

When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.

Cory Booker

patriotism

9,164

75,139

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

Sholom Aleichem

work

7,413

3,567

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

Goldwin Smith

architecture

6,409

6,511

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

George Orwell

best

647

73,351

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

Steve Albini

wisdom

6,698

21,451

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

Vince Gill

famous

6,886

20,479

I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.

David Hockney

family

1,161

15,205

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

Paracelsus

dreams

8,601

55,662

You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people.

Dennis Kucinich

politics

9,276

27,913

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

god

10,414

55,074

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

politics

8,024

44,002

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Stephen Leacock

marriage

10,419

33,441

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.

Nicholas D. Kristof

health

2,253

30,448

Let's be honest about this the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.

Alveda King

government

1,800

7,994

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

Jon Bon Jovi

business

4,118

26,495

Gotta stay in the gym, stay funny, stay sharp. I just love working.

Marlon Wayans

funny

468

54,686

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.

Hart Crane

poetry

3,093

48,506

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.

Ernie Banks

morning

5,577

47,726

Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.

Suze Orman

money

11,736

71,983

All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.

Jerry Saltz

war

8,338

20,568

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

Peter Singer

family

10,187

23,821

I suppose women are attracted to the bad-boy image sometimes because it's fun to have an adventure. It's like eating junk food... it's fun at the time, but ultimately not the best choice.

Dita Von Teese

food

2,076

14,658

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

Robert Hughes

design

6,567

1,135

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

George Washington

alone

5,730

56,634

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Plato

power

8,825

15,884

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Albert Einstein

education

6,343

37,142

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.

Michelle Williams

humor

1,176

9,671

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.

Leonardo DiCaprio

change

5,761

14,388

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.

Kate Moss

design

6,223

19,853

I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.

Mary Ann Mobley

faith

5,895

64,469

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Og Mandino

strength

11,392

14,310

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

Isaac Mizrahi

design

174

55,191

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

Chester Brown

politics

7,383

55,787

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

W. Clement Stone

positive

7,975

50,003

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

Sam Mendes

movies

1,268

27,883

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

William Shakespeare

god

3,985

9,835

Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.

William Hague

change

10,493

59,628

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.

Hugh Jackman

respect

6,032

69,478

I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.

John Galliano

travel

4,243

39,678

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

Matthew Simpson

knowledge

6,872

39,681

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

Matthew Simpson

knowledge

4,747

21,053

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

Annette Bening

famous

11,117

48,174

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

Colin Powell

morning

6,557

48,477

I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.

Stella McCartney

morning

2,339

28,407

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

Thomas Browne

god

6,665

7,117

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

Jerry Seinfeld

birthday

7,568

10,286

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

communication

1,307

18,197

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.

Tim Robbins

experience

7,207

35,508

I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.

Robert Carlyle

home

428

18,552

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

Henry A. Wallace

failure

4,681

18,355

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

George Eliot

failure

1,112

69,849

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

James Dean

trust

3,645

13,508

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Henry Ward Beecher

death

1,454

46,891

I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.

Carol Leifer

mom

10,803

68,665

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

time

10,770

31,064

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Robert Frost

great

9,438

49,612

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

Jane Fonda

movies

10,464

66,778

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.

Jon Hamm

teacher

6,631

3,502

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

John Irving

architecture

291

75,578

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

Ralph W. Sockman

christmas

10,169

37,488

Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Blaise Pascal

imagination

3,366

71,054

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Alexander Pope

truth