c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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3,940	10,663	Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.	Lady Gaga	cool
7,338	14,456	The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.	Tadao Ando	design
2,354	75,517	I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.	Tori Amos	christmas
8,323	62,996	Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.	John Burroughs	society
11,043	70,666	In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.	Thomas Jefferson	truth
8,378	320	Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.	J. K. Rowling	age
6,763	65,396	Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.	Mae West	success
975	40,842	I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.	John Mayer	learning
414	75,554	From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.	Katharine Whitehorn	christmas
2,674	25,493	Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.	Sting	friendship
541	10,528	We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.	Nicholas Negroponte	computers
11,618	61,860	Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.	Freeman Dyson	science
5,515	67,263	Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things.	Jamie Bell	technology
2,372	7,710	I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.	Dwayne Johnson	business
1,933	69,294	It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.	Roger Moore	travel
5,182	40,823	I'm interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me, rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer.	Jessica Simpson	learning
10,811	69,954	I don't trust what this life has given me.	Dennis Rodman	trust
140	24,388	History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.	Dwight D. Eisenhower	freedom
6,812	58,021	Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.	Daniel H. Wilson	relationship
1,758	67,849	We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.	Tommy Chong	teen
1,995	70,764	The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.	Lana Turner	truth
5,645	44,931	I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.	Danica McKellar	medical
8,156	61,333	And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.	William Peter Blatty	sad
9,572	29,110	Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.	Cavett Robert	good
1,787	35,765	The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.	Lindsey Graham	home
6,273	27,319	I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.	J. G. Ballard	future
8,187	68,209	I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.	Mahatma Gandhi	time
7,313	67,707	With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.	Vince Neil	technology
2,054	57,062	I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.	Michael J. Fox	power
2,317	12,108	I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.	Chief Joseph	dad
6,242	5,439	Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.	Sydney Smith	beauty
3,394	19,831	The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.	Charles Hodge	faith
10,481	16,637	You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.	Robert Vaughn	education
2,556	55,420	Politics is not about money.	Paul Wellstone	politics
8,442	13,791	The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.	Terry Pratchett	death
1,838	66,954	In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.	Alan Perlis	technology
6,290	34,495	For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.	Michael Pollan	history
9,304	65,347	Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.	Henry David Thoreau	success
7,158	15,677	Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.	Lois McMaster Bujold	dreams
36	39,265	The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.	Ernest Holmes	knowledge
4,485	7,503	Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.	Robert Louis Stevenson	business
4,710	49,524	Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes.	Harvey Weinstein	movies
2,664	26,432	Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.	Andrew Stanton	funny
5,914	30,031	I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.	Jesse Ventura	government
9,240	38,157	A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.	Meister Eckhart	inspirational
1,047	24,645	The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.	Marilyn vos Savant	freedom
9,513	14,650	In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.	Samuel E. Morison	design
9,257	10,641	I am always looking for a cool tee shirt maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.	Bridget Hall	cool
2,677	37,076	I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.	Rainn Wilson	humor
4,896	58,536	The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.	Billy Graham	religion
9,729	16,996	Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.	Peter DeFazio	environmental
1,798	75,137	A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.	Ludwig Wittgenstein	work
5,840	12,938	My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.	Dido Armstrong	dad
6,664	74,503	Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.	Gloria Steinem	work
5,848	55,282	The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.	Christopher Lasch	politics
7,840	25,697	A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.	Mitch Hedberg	funny
6,357	49,082	Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.	Bo Jackson	motivational
1,908	35,425	In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.	Emma Goldman	home
2,286	16,638	You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.	Wangari Maathai	education
3,523	12,034	I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.	Tammy Baldwin	courage
374	33,872	God cannot alter the past, though historians can.	Samuel Butler	history
10,429	71,748	I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.	Shel Silverstein	war
2,818	58,217	And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.	Karlheinz Stockhausen	relationship
3,446	50,692	One often makes music to supplement one's world.	Brian Eno	music
1,485	68,033	I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I'm thankful for her. All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.	Nikki Reed	thankful
8,350	753	When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble.	Jeffrey Kluger	age
5,462	516	I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.	Joan Jett	age
9,819	32,395	I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.	Christina Milian	happiness
7,202	31,817	All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.	James Freeman Clarke	great
1,755	70,723	The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.	Tony Robbins	truth
3,767	59,526	I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.	Javier Bardem	respect
4,969	32,799	Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.	Chris Bailey	happiness
2,983	28,367	Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.	Francis Bacon	god
6,108	62,772	Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.	Alfred Austin	society
4,349	34,920	The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.	George Bernard Shaw	home
8,249	40,657	The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.	Pablo Neruda	learning
8,322	57,330	We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.	Manuel Puig	power
9,181	36,343	I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.	David Duchovny	hope
2,421	45,472	Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.	Jean de La Fontaine	men
3,589	18,791	I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.	Chen Shui-bian	failure
9,921	8,370	Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.	Dave Barry	car
2,265	1,032	The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.	Doug Coupland	alone
2,492	44,548	Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.	James McGreevey	marriage
10,995	60,071	I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.	Branch Rickey	respect
6,748	75,718	God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.	Bede Griffiths	easter
8,529	57,898	I'm certainly not the first person to be in a relationship with a younger man, but somehow I was plucked out as a bit of a poster girl.	Demi Moore	relationship
7,254	75,589	My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.	Margot Kidder	christmas
790	37,447	Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.	Henry David Thoreau	imagination
6,824	22,403	Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.	Ricky Williams	fear
570	49,330	They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.	Julia Roberts	movies
9,498	52,651	Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.	Ambrose Bierce	patriotism
2,581	15,900	Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.	Mark Twain	education
4,149	14,876	I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say.	Britt Ekland	diet
10,099	41,184	In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.	Ajay Naidu	learning
8,984	2,509	People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.	Chris Hughes	amazing
1,842	16,763	If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?	Estelle Morris	education
1,149	17,258	And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.	Ed Miliband	equality
4,972	29,315	What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?	E. M. Forster	good
2,538	12,785	I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.	Colin Hanks	dad
9,533	37,033	Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.	Richard Roeper	humor

3,940

10,663

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.

Lady Gaga

cool

7,338

14,456

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

Tadao Ando

design

2,354

75,517

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

Tori Amos

christmas

8,323

62,996

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

John Burroughs

society

11,043

70,666

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Thomas Jefferson

truth

8,378

320

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

age

6,763

65,396

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

Mae West

success

975

40,842

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

John Mayer

learning

414

75,554

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

Katharine Whitehorn

christmas

2,674

25,493

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

Sting

friendship

541

10,528

We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.

Nicholas Negroponte

computers

11,618

61,860

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

Freeman Dyson

science

5,515

67,263

Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things.

Jamie Bell

technology

2,372

7,710

I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.

Dwayne Johnson

business

1,933

69,294

It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.

Roger Moore

travel

5,182

40,823

I'm interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me, rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer.

Jessica Simpson

learning

10,811

69,954

I don't trust what this life has given me.

Dennis Rodman

trust

140

24,388

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

freedom

6,812

58,021

Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

Daniel H. Wilson

relationship

1,758

67,849

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.

Tommy Chong

teen

1,995

70,764

The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.

Lana Turner

truth

5,645

44,931

I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.

Danica McKellar

medical

8,156

61,333

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.

William Peter Blatty

sad

9,572

29,110

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

Cavett Robert

good

1,787

35,765

The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.

Lindsey Graham

home

6,273

27,319

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.

J. G. Ballard

future

8,187

68,209

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.

Mahatma Gandhi

time

7,313

67,707

With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.

Vince Neil

technology

2,054

57,062

I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.

Michael J. Fox

power

2,317

12,108

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

Chief Joseph

dad

6,242

5,439

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

Sydney Smith

beauty

3,394

19,831

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.

Charles Hodge

faith

10,481

16,637

You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.

Robert Vaughn

education

2,556

55,420

Politics is not about money.

Paul Wellstone

politics

8,442

13,791

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Terry Pratchett

death

1,838

66,954

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

Alan Perlis

technology

6,290

34,495

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.

Michael Pollan

history

9,304

65,347

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

success

7,158

15,677

Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

Lois McMaster Bujold

dreams

36

39,265

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.

Ernest Holmes

knowledge

4,485

7,503

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Robert Louis Stevenson

business

4,710

49,524

Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes.

Harvey Weinstein

movies

2,664

26,432

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

Andrew Stanton

funny

5,914

30,031

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

Jesse Ventura

government

9,240

38,157

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Meister Eckhart

inspirational

1,047

24,645

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

Marilyn vos Savant

freedom

9,513

14,650

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

Samuel E. Morison

design

9,257

10,641

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

Bridget Hall

cool

2,677

37,076

I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.

Rainn Wilson

humor

4,896

58,536

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Billy Graham

religion

9,729

16,996

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.

Peter DeFazio

environmental

1,798

75,137

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

work

5,840

12,938

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

Dido Armstrong

dad

6,664

74,503

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

Gloria Steinem

work

5,848

55,282

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

Christopher Lasch

politics

7,840

25,697

A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.

Mitch Hedberg

funny

6,357

49,082

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

Bo Jackson

motivational

1,908

35,425

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

Emma Goldman

home

2,286

16,638

You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.

Wangari Maathai

education

3,523

12,034

I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.

Tammy Baldwin

courage

374

33,872

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Samuel Butler

history

10,429

71,748

I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.

Shel Silverstein

war

2,818

58,217

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

relationship

3,446

50,692

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

Brian Eno

music

1,485

68,033

I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I'm thankful for her. All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.

Nikki Reed

thankful

8,350

753

When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble.

Jeffrey Kluger

age

5,462

516

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

Joan Jett

age

9,819

32,395

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

Christina Milian

happiness

7,202

31,817

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

James Freeman Clarke

great

1,755

70,723

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Tony Robbins

truth

3,767

59,526

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Javier Bardem

respect

4,969

32,799

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

Chris Bailey

happiness

2,983

28,367

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Francis Bacon

god

6,108

62,772

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

Alfred Austin

society

4,349

34,920

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

George Bernard Shaw

home

8,249

40,657

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Pablo Neruda

learning

8,322

57,330

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

Manuel Puig

power

9,181

36,343

I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.

David Duchovny

hope

2,421

45,472

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Jean de La Fontaine

men

3,589

18,791

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.

Chen Shui-bian

failure

9,921

8,370

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

Dave Barry

car

2,265

1,032

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

Doug Coupland

alone

2,492

44,548

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

James McGreevey

marriage

10,995

60,071

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

Branch Rickey

respect

6,748

75,718

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

Bede Griffiths

easter

8,529

57,898

I'm certainly not the first person to be in a relationship with a younger man, but somehow I was plucked out as a bit of a poster girl.

Demi Moore

relationship

7,254

75,589

My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.

Margot Kidder

christmas

790

37,447

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Henry David Thoreau

imagination

6,824

22,403

Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.

Ricky Williams

fear

570

49,330

They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.

Julia Roberts

movies

9,498

52,651

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Ambrose Bierce

patriotism

2,581

15,900

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Mark Twain

education

4,149

14,876

I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say.

Britt Ekland

diet

10,099

41,184

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

Ajay Naidu

learning

8,984

2,509

People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

Chris Hughes

amazing

1,842

16,763

If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?

Estelle Morris

education

1,149

17,258

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

Ed Miliband

equality

4,972

29,315

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

E. M. Forster

good

2,538

12,785

I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.

Colin Hanks

dad

9,533

37,033

Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.

Richard Roeper

humor