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4,872	20,295	In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.	Alfred Adler	family
11,236	61,768	The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.	John Glenn	science
9,922	33,020	We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.	Paul Ryan	health
45	62,040	While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.	Mike Pence	science
10,424	15,325	Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.	Antonio Tabucchi	dreams
2,743	43	Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.	Andre Maurois	age
2,126	11,579	I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.	George Bernard Shaw	courage
9,352	12,626	I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad.	Frank Bruno	dad
8,797	56,167	I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.	Kerry Washington	positive
1,357	10,479	We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.	Emilio Estevez	computers
615	29,178	A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.	H. L. Mencken	good
7,476	39,388	I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.	Alan Alda	knowledge
4,720	30,037	That fatal drollery called a representative government.	Benjamin Disraeli	government
4,085	35,333	These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.	Marc Andreessen	home
367	72,826	In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.	Lord Chesterfield	wisdom
85	73,978	I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.	Christopher Hitchens	women
4,560	31,943	Happiness seems made to be shared.	Pierre Corneille	happiness
10,084	31,830	I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.	Martha Washington	happiness
10,487	60,193	I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.	Jackie Mason	respect
7,511	66,471	Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.	William Wordsworth	teacher
7,213	30,273	Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!	Rick Perry	government
8,059	5,200	Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.	Cindy Margolis	beauty
11,038	29,589	Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.	Thomas Carlyle	good
10,695	34,638	The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true international coalition.	Nancy Pelosi	history
7,775	55,021	It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.	Thomas Carlyle	politics
8,173	42,133	I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.	Rita Rudner	life
9,264	15,392	When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.	Karen Armstrong	dreams
7,396	22,974	Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.	Lance Armstrong	fitness
2,909	24,174	One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.	Ian Mcewan	forgiveness
4,856	43,537	Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.	Garrison Keillor	love
6,493	2,775	I feel like I'm really blessed and lucky that I have a very good social life outside of the gym, and I have a really amazing family. My parents are so supportive. I have a younger brother and two younger sisters, and they're really awesome. So I feel like I get the best of both worlds.	Aly Raisman	amazing
5,827	5,920	For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.	Oscar Niemeyer	beauty
10,443	42,966	Love is being stupid together.	Paul Valery	love
9,054	74,239	We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.	Ursula K. Le Guin	women
5,302	65,721	If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	success
4,683	34,672	Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.	Francois Hollande	history
10,833	62,291	Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.	Cathy McMorris	science
8,118	3,528	Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.	Louis Kahn	architecture
6,850	17,188	In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.	Bianca Jagger	equality
9,281	2,637	Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.	Michael Chabon	amazing
6,790	33,700	America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.	Mike Ferguson	health
8,115	36,572	I just hope that the democratic will of the Zimbabwean people prevails. If it does we must move quickly to help restore stability and prosperity.	Lucy Powell	hope
8,552	65,962	When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.	Lauren Bacall	success
7,052	43,183	I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.	Eminem	love
9,905	32,427	You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.	Percy Ross	happiness
4,931	63,735	A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.	Wayne Gretzky	sports
5,925	67,412	You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.	James Daly	technology
7,642	22,391	I like to do something I fear.	Heath Ledger	fear
6,718	70,387	Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.	Ben Quayle	trust
11,800	39,420	Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.	Henry Adams	knowledge
9,769	52,671	There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.	Bruce Springsteen	patriotism
3,813	72,488	I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.	Robert Walpole	war
2,623	16,418	Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.	Armstrong Williams	education
5,988	31,802	The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.	Jacques Yves Cousteau	great
8,975	11,066	I try to be the best husband I can be, and if people respect that, that's cool. But there's no 'perfect husband.' We just all try to do the best we can, you know what I mean?	Nick Lachey	cool
9,604	29,225	Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.	Joel Osteen	good
7,755	1,419	The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?	Brendan Francis	alone
10,851	25,912	The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.	Arthur C. Clarke	funny
3,936	44,874	Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.	Ovid	medical
8,741	12,376	I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.	Christian Bale	dad
9,725	13,538	Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.	Walt Whitman	death
5,421	40,445	To be elected president, you have to do more than tear down your opponents. You have to give the American people a reason to vote for you - a reason to hope - a reason to believe that under your leadership, America will be better.	Mike DeWine	leadership
7,394	37,804	Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.	Arthur Keith	imagination
4,434	6,257	An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.	Agatha Christie	best
71	17,308	People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.	Eleanor Roosevelt	experience
1,234	63,863	Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.	Peter Ueberroth	sports
7,107	29,142	We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.	Steve Jobs	good
10,838	29,445	I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.	Anne Frank	good
1,512	13,526	Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.	Ambrose Bierce	death
11,147	49,158	Every great film should seem new every time you see it.	Roger Ebert	movies
5,286	10,261	In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.	Penelope Keith	communication
5,136	33,906	History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.	Konrad Adenauer	history
10,242	51,111	We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.	Barry White	music
5,539	11,026	My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff.	Lily Collins	cool
7,680	45,740	Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?	Virginia Woolf	men
7,349	60,741	We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.	Jill Bennett	romantic
2,195	64,204	I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.	Martina Hingis	sports
11,361	56,217	We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.	Johannes Stark	positive
1,970	49,190	'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.	Jerry Orbach	movies
1,641	53,437	Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.	Ariel Sharon	peace
8,186	31,957	How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.	William Ellery Channing	happiness
4,280	62,595	Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.	Henning Mankell	smile
4,612	44,304	I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.	Stephen Harper	marriage
1,782	57,097	He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.	Charles Kingsley	power
1,663	25,619	To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.	Christopher Knight	friendship
4,690	54,620	When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.	Story Musgrave	poetry
3,380	64,925	I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.	Janelle Monae	strength
11,469	29,839	If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.	Henry David Thoreau	government
11,024	29,975	A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.	Benjamin Disraeli	government
8,751	54,536	I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.	Kenneth Koch	poetry
5,152	22,906	Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.	Lord Chesterfield	fitness
10,104	44,388	A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.	Queen Victoria	marriage
6,501	17,110	Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.	Thomas Huxley	equality
5,718	51,033	Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts.	Rebecca West	music
3,042	27,325	Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.	Ron Wyden	future
9,797	65,393	Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.	Niccolo Machiavelli	success
1,628	67,393	The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.	Herbie Mann	technology
3,466	1,180	I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.	Lady Gaga	alone
7,437	39,755	Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.	Albert J. Nock	knowledge
670	73,787	The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.	George Eliot	women

4,872

20,295

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

Alfred Adler

family

11,236

61,768

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

John Glenn

science

9,922

33,020

We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.

Paul Ryan

health

45

62,040

While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.

Mike Pence

science

10,424

15,325

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Antonio Tabucchi

dreams

2,743

43

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Andre Maurois

age

2,126

11,579

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

George Bernard Shaw

courage

9,352

12,626

I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad.

Frank Bruno

dad

8,797

56,167

I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.

Kerry Washington

positive

1,357

10,479

We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.

Emilio Estevez

computers

615

29,178

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

H. L. Mencken

good

7,476

39,388

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

Alan Alda

knowledge

4,720

30,037

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Benjamin Disraeli

government

4,085

35,333

These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.

Marc Andreessen

home

367

72,826

In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Lord Chesterfield

wisdom

85

73,978

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

Christopher Hitchens

women

4,560

31,943

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Pierre Corneille

happiness

10,084

31,830

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

Martha Washington

happiness

10,487

60,193

I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.

Jackie Mason

respect

7,511

66,471

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

William Wordsworth

teacher

7,213

30,273

Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!

Rick Perry

government

8,059

5,200

Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.

Cindy Margolis

beauty

11,038

29,589

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

Thomas Carlyle

good

10,695

34,638

The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true international coalition.

Nancy Pelosi

history

7,775

55,021

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Thomas Carlyle

politics

8,173

42,133

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

life

9,264

15,392

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

Karen Armstrong

dreams

7,396

22,974

Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.

Lance Armstrong

fitness

2,909

24,174

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

Ian Mcewan

forgiveness

4,856

43,537

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

Garrison Keillor

love

6,493

2,775

I feel like I'm really blessed and lucky that I have a very good social life outside of the gym, and I have a really amazing family. My parents are so supportive. I have a younger brother and two younger sisters, and they're really awesome. So I feel like I get the best of both worlds.

Aly Raisman

amazing

5,827

5,920

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

Oscar Niemeyer

beauty

10,443

42,966

Love is being stupid together.

Paul Valery

love

9,054

74,239

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Ursula K. Le Guin

women

5,302

65,721

If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

success

4,683

34,672

Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.

Francois Hollande

history

10,833

62,291

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

Cathy McMorris

science

8,118

3,528

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

Louis Kahn

architecture

6,850

17,188

In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.

Bianca Jagger

equality

9,281

2,637

Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.

Michael Chabon

amazing

6,790

33,700

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

Mike Ferguson

health

8,115

36,572

I just hope that the democratic will of the Zimbabwean people prevails. If it does we must move quickly to help restore stability and prosperity.

Lucy Powell

hope

8,552

65,962

When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

Lauren Bacall

success

7,052

43,183

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

Eminem

love

9,905

32,427

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

Percy Ross

happiness

4,931

63,735

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Wayne Gretzky

sports

5,925

67,412

You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.

James Daly

technology

7,642

22,391

I like to do something I fear.

Heath Ledger

fear

6,718

70,387

Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.

Ben Quayle

trust

11,800

39,420

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Henry Adams

knowledge

9,769

52,671

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

Bruce Springsteen

patriotism

3,813

72,488

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

Robert Walpole

war

2,623

16,418

Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

Armstrong Williams

education

5,988

31,802

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

great

8,975

11,066

I try to be the best husband I can be, and if people respect that, that's cool. But there's no 'perfect husband.' We just all try to do the best we can, you know what I mean?

Nick Lachey

cool

9,604

29,225

Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.

Joel Osteen

good

7,755

1,419

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

Brendan Francis

alone

10,851

25,912

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Arthur C. Clarke

funny

3,936

44,874

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Ovid

medical

8,741

12,376

I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.

Christian Bale

dad

9,725

13,538

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Walt Whitman

death

5,421

40,445

To be elected president, you have to do more than tear down your opponents. You have to give the American people a reason to vote for you - a reason to hope - a reason to believe that under your leadership, America will be better.

Mike DeWine

leadership

7,394

37,804

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

Arthur Keith

imagination

4,434

6,257

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Agatha Christie

best

71

17,308

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt

experience

1,234

63,863

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

Peter Ueberroth

sports

7,107

29,142

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.

Steve Jobs

good

10,838

29,445

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

good

1,512

13,526

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Ambrose Bierce

death

11,147

49,158

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

Roger Ebert

movies

5,286

10,261

In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.

Penelope Keith

communication

5,136

33,906

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Konrad Adenauer

history

10,242

51,111

We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

Barry White

music

5,539

11,026

My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff.

Lily Collins

cool

7,680

45,740

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Virginia Woolf

men

7,349

60,741

We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.

Jill Bennett

romantic

2,195

64,204

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

Martina Hingis

sports

11,361

56,217

We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.

Johannes Stark

positive

1,970

49,190

'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.

Jerry Orbach

movies

1,641

53,437

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.

Ariel Sharon

peace

8,186

31,957

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

William Ellery Channing

happiness

4,280

62,595

Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.

Henning Mankell

smile

4,612

44,304

I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.

Stephen Harper

marriage

1,782

57,097

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

Charles Kingsley

power

1,663

25,619

To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.

Christopher Knight

friendship

4,690

54,620

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.

Story Musgrave

poetry

3,380

64,925

I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.

Janelle Monae

strength

11,469

29,839

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Henry David Thoreau

government

11,024

29,975

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Benjamin Disraeli

government

8,751

54,536

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.

Kenneth Koch

poetry

5,152

22,906

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

Lord Chesterfield

fitness

10,104

44,388

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Queen Victoria

marriage

6,501

17,110

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

Thomas Huxley

equality

5,718

51,033

Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts.

Rebecca West

music

3,042

27,325

Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.

Ron Wyden

future

9,797

65,393

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Niccolo Machiavelli

success

1,628

67,393

The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.

Herbie Mann

technology

3,466

1,180

I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

Lady Gaga

alone

7,437

39,755

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

Albert J. Nock

knowledge

670

73,787

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

George Eliot

women