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10,820	2,925	When you think of it I haven't really done a lot of horror. It's amazing: I have done some really good ones, but I haven't done a lot of them.	Michael Rooker	amazing
3,249	7,646	I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.	Steve Martin	business
723	48,551	I still love doing what I do, and I'm really lucky to get up in the morning and want to go to work.	Heston Blumenthal	morning
2,573	29,521	Real firmness is good for anything strut is good for nothing.	Alexander Hamilton	good
2,079	32,808	Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.	Joyce Grenfell	happiness
10,087	23,261	I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.	Al Sharpton	food
1,765	7,844	The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'	Kelly Clarkson	business
6,953	14,610	I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.	K. Eric Drexler	design
1,806	3,999	A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.	Benjamin Disraeli	art
1,201	19,564	I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.	Francois Hollande	faith
10,694	37,444	Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.	Voltaire	imagination
1,280	64,981	First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.	William Bartram	strength
4,835	1,950	For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.	Itzhak Perlman	alone
4,705	28,174	God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.	Steve Harvey	god
3,760	29,260	In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.	Peter Tosh	good
6,792	42,074	Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.	Dalai Lama	life
10,853	13,007	My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.	Shane MacGowan	dad
23	50,434	I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.	Ice Cube	music
9,202	11,569	Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	courage
7,023	62,054	To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.	Matthew Fox	science
4,433	47,963	Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.	J. Edgar Hoover	money
9,037	51,628	What is art? Nature concentrated.	Honore de Balzac	nature
1,951	11,357	I work with really cool people, and so far I haven't been approached in any embarrassing manner when it comes to image.	Sondre Lerche	cool
7,419	45,364	But men are men the best sometimes forget.	William Shakespeare	men
9,329	59,070	Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?	Mary Douglas	religion
7,335	62,678	I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.	Arizona Muse	smile
9,373	21,585	I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.	Amanda Hocking	famous
2,140	28,185	Theology is a science of mind applied to God.	Henry Ward Beecher	god
11,287	25,646	A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.	Steve Martin	funny
11,603	39,795	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	knowledge
8,228	17,988	All experience is subjective.	Gregory Bateson	experience
11,224	58,597	My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.	Thomas Paine	religion
10,863	7,693	As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.	Morgan Freeman	business
8,535	12,540	My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze.	David Miliband	dad
7,599	60,600	It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all.	Jane Campion	romantic
9,670	34,648	The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.	Shimon Peres	history
9,983	75,386	I work to stay alive.	Bette Davis	work
10,011	8,169	I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.	Manuel Puig	business
9,254	337	Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.	Russell Baker	age
4,566	37,822	They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.	Toby Jones	imagination
10,365	24,251	Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.	Frank Herbert	freedom
581	42,780	I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.	Muhammad Iqbal	life
6,654	68,733	We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.	William E. Gladstone	time
8,419	58,178	It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.	Paul Watzlawick	relationship
2,036	59,814	I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well.	Lindsay Lohan	respect
7,969	11,793	Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.	Lech Walesa	courage
11,739	40,521	If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?	Albert Einstein	learning
3,667	30,279	The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.	Mia Love	government
4,080	16,931	There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.	Galen Rowell	environmental
3,142	19,825	To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.	Maggie Gallagher	faith
800	44,602	If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.	Carol Ann Duffy	marriage
4,200	35,443	Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.	Meryl Streep	home
7,075	68,041	If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.	Helen Hunt Jackson	thankful
3,851	10,086	Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.	Pearl S. Buck	communication
1,923	26,055	I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.	LeBron James	funny
142	67,049	I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.	David Hockney	technology
1,589	53,139	Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.	Edwin Louis Cole	peace
381	62,305	On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.	Fredrik Bajer	science
9,471	63,322	When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.	John Boyd Orr	society
8,812	49,842	So I know how I watch movies which is on my laptop, man. And that's how I suspect a lot of people do it.	Kevin Smith	movies
9,701	32,074	For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.	Aeschylus	happiness
4,492	30,083	The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.	William J. Clinton	government
5,568	17,487	Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.	Leonardo da Vinci	experience
10,625	60,993	The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'	Neale Donald Walsch	sad
9,949	57,646	I'm so happy now. I love that I'm in a relationship right now... I want a life... The past five years or so I've found my groove and my balance.	Kelly Clarkson	relationship
6,295	27,006	America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.	Anne Morrow Lindbergh	future
2,951	13,072	I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.	Nick Mason	dad
6,794	55,169	I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'	David Byrne	politics
6,634	68,541	There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!	Coco Chanel	time
2,420	39,827	The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.	John Redwood	knowledge
7,712	21,067	Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	famous
7,206	1,854	When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.	Tom Brady	alone
4,694	23,218	The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.	John Ruskin	food
6,192	44,309	Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.	Christopher Lasch	marriage
1,388	20,497	I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	family
3,333	69,146	On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.	Lisa Snowdon	travel
11,594	32,188	Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.	Bryant H. McGill	happiness
774	70,998	Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.	Barbara Kingsolver	truth
7,281	35,964	If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.	Lance Armstrong	hope
5,579	37,272	The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.	Robin Roberts	humor
11,740	8,504	A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.	Kenneth Tynan	car
5,183	13,030	I have a weird sense of humour. My dad's the same. We love watching 'Monty Python' together.	Miranda Kerr	dad
6,655	3,164	Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.	Eric Alterman	anger
6,340	2,968	Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.	Benjamin Franklin	anger
438	43,619	The most important thing in the world is family and love.	John Wooden	love
3,693	38,730	Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.	Saxby Chambliss	intelligence
4,181	60,473	The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.	F. Scott Fitzgerald	romantic
4,067	16,446	Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.	John Baldacci	education
3,752	25,661	A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.	Steven Wright	funny
9,003	65,445	Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.	W. Clement Stone	success
2,452	4,662	Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.	Frank Sinatra	attitude
4,473	61,655	Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.	William Bernbach	science
1,656	67,803	I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.	Adriana Lima	teen
3,307	49,967	I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.	Jodie Foster	movies
10,243	16,738	Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.	Robert M. Hutchins	education
6,044	51,294	We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.	William Hazlitt	nature
1,552	16,327	I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.	Cat Cora	education
366	10,478	My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.	Steve Wozniak	computers
8,911	42,668	We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.	Lauren Hutton	life
7,527	14,544	User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.	Donald Norman	design

10,820

2,925

When you think of it I haven't really done a lot of horror. It's amazing: I have done some really good ones, but I haven't done a lot of them.

Michael Rooker

amazing

3,249

7,646

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Steve Martin

business

723

48,551

I still love doing what I do, and I'm really lucky to get up in the morning and want to go to work.

Heston Blumenthal

morning

2,573

29,521

Real firmness is good for anything strut is good for nothing.

Alexander Hamilton

good

2,079

32,808

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

Joyce Grenfell

happiness

10,087

23,261

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

Al Sharpton

food

1,765

7,844

The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'

Kelly Clarkson

business

6,953

14,610

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

K. Eric Drexler

design

1,806

3,999

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Benjamin Disraeli

art

1,201

19,564

I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.

Francois Hollande

faith

10,694

37,444

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Voltaire

imagination

1,280

64,981

First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.

William Bartram

strength

4,835

1,950

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.

Itzhak Perlman

alone

4,705

28,174

God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.

Steve Harvey

god

3,760

29,260

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.

Peter Tosh

good

6,792

42,074

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

life

10,853

13,007

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

Shane MacGowan

dad

23

50,434

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

Ice Cube

music

9,202

11,569

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

courage

7,023

62,054

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.

Matthew Fox

science

4,433

47,963

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

J. Edgar Hoover

money

9,037

51,628

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Honore de Balzac

nature

1,951

11,357

I work with really cool people, and so far I haven't been approached in any embarrassing manner when it comes to image.

Sondre Lerche

cool

7,419

45,364

But men are men the best sometimes forget.

William Shakespeare

men

9,329

59,070

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

Mary Douglas

religion

7,335

62,678

I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.

Arizona Muse

smile

9,373

21,585

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

Amanda Hocking

famous

2,140

28,185

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

Henry Ward Beecher

god

11,287

25,646

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Steve Martin

funny

11,603

39,795

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

knowledge

8,228

17,988

All experience is subjective.

Gregory Bateson

experience

11,224

58,597

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Thomas Paine

religion

10,863

7,693

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

Morgan Freeman

business

8,535

12,540

My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze.

David Miliband

dad

7,599

60,600

It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all.

Jane Campion

romantic

9,670

34,648

The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.

Shimon Peres

history

9,983

75,386

I work to stay alive.

Bette Davis

work

10,011

8,169

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

Manuel Puig

business

9,254

337

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

Russell Baker

age

4,566

37,822

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

Toby Jones

imagination

10,365

24,251

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Frank Herbert

freedom

581

42,780

I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

Muhammad Iqbal

life

6,654

68,733

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

William E. Gladstone

time

8,419

58,178

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

Paul Watzlawick

relationship

2,036

59,814

I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well.

Lindsay Lohan

respect

7,969

11,793

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.

Lech Walesa

courage

11,739

40,521

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Albert Einstein

learning

3,667

30,279

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

Mia Love

government

4,080

16,931

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

Galen Rowell

environmental

3,142

19,825

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

Maggie Gallagher

faith

800

44,602

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

Carol Ann Duffy

marriage

4,200

35,443

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.

Meryl Streep

home

7,075

68,041

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

Helen Hunt Jackson

thankful

3,851

10,086

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Pearl S. Buck

communication

1,923

26,055

I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

LeBron James

funny

142

67,049

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.

David Hockney

technology

1,589

53,139

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

Edwin Louis Cole

peace

381

62,305

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

Fredrik Bajer

science

9,471

63,322

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

John Boyd Orr

society

8,812

49,842

So I know how I watch movies which is on my laptop, man. And that's how I suspect a lot of people do it.

Kevin Smith

movies

9,701

32,074

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Aeschylus

happiness

4,492

30,083

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.

William J. Clinton

government

5,568

17,487

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Leonardo da Vinci

experience

10,625

60,993

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'

Neale Donald Walsch

sad

9,949

57,646

I'm so happy now. I love that I'm in a relationship right now... I want a life... The past five years or so I've found my groove and my balance.

Kelly Clarkson

relationship

6,295

27,006

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

future

2,951

13,072

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.

Nick Mason

dad

6,794

55,169

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'

David Byrne

politics

6,634

68,541

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Coco Chanel

time

2,420

39,827

The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.

John Redwood

knowledge

7,712

21,067

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

famous

7,206

1,854

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

Tom Brady

alone

4,694

23,218

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

John Ruskin

food

6,192

44,309

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

Christopher Lasch

marriage

1,388

20,497

I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

family

3,333

69,146

On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.

Lisa Snowdon

travel

11,594

32,188

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

Bryant H. McGill

happiness

774

70,998

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Barbara Kingsolver

truth

7,281

35,964

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.

Lance Armstrong

hope

5,579

37,272

The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.

Robin Roberts

humor

11,740

8,504

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Kenneth Tynan

car

5,183

13,030

I have a weird sense of humour. My dad's the same. We love watching 'Monty Python' together.

Miranda Kerr

dad

6,655

3,164

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.

Eric Alterman

anger

6,340

2,968

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Benjamin Franklin

anger

438

43,619

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

John Wooden

love

3,693

38,730

Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.

Saxby Chambliss

intelligence

4,181

60,473

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

romantic

4,067

16,446

Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.

John Baldacci

education

3,752

25,661

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

Steven Wright

funny

9,003

65,445

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

W. Clement Stone

success

2,452

4,662

Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.

Frank Sinatra

attitude

4,473

61,655

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

William Bernbach

science

1,656

67,803

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

Adriana Lima

teen

3,307

49,967

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

Jodie Foster

movies

10,243

16,738

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Robert M. Hutchins

education

6,044

51,294

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

William Hazlitt

nature

1,552

16,327

I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.

Cat Cora

education

366

10,478

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

Steve Wozniak

computers

8,911

42,668

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

Lauren Hutton

life

7,527

14,544

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.

Donald Norman

design