c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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3,005	18,798	In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.	Seth Godin	failure
6,061	61,466	Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.	Henry Adams	science
5,912	11,356	I have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it would maybe be exciting and cool. But I could record the same song next week and it would be something completely different.	Sondre Lerche	cool
8,958	17,663	The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.	Robertson Davies	experience
9,852	66,999	I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.	Steve Jobs	technology
7,627	1,401	I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.	Jeanette Winterson	alone
9,162	48,524	Too much coffee. Too much coffee and Gatorade. It's a hell of a mix. If you're ever tired in the morning, just try that mix, and tell me what you think.	Kevin Garnett	morning
9,626	32,816	A good education is another name for happiness.	Ann Plato	happiness
5,032	31,397	The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.	Swami Sivananda	great
3,134	19,295	Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.	Paul Tillich	faith
821	6,547	The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.	Annie Lennox	best
483	29,805	Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.	Ronald Reagan	government
720	60,444	The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.	Anita Brookner	romantic
595	75,279	To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.	Simone Weil	work
11,658	57,405	One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.	Euripides	relationship
8,292	51,169	I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.	Norah Jones	music
11,133	7,220	For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.	Chris Evans	birthday
7,724	53,113	On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.	Jimmy Carter	peace
1,959	68,471	For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.	Ernest Hemingway	time
9,400	68,219	We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.	Charles Stanley	time
9,269	28,715	We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.	Karen Armstrong	god
474	15,792	Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.	William Butler Yeats	education
7,914	2,060	We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac.	Steve Jobs	amazing
10,763	28,146	What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.	Rick Warren	god
2,913	47,198	If I have enough money to eat I'm good.	Shia LaBeouf	money
5,396	25,913	I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.	Fred Allen	funny
1,527	31,152	Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.	Oprah Winfrey	great
5,665	47,555	It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.	Kin Hubbard	money
10,629	5,335	The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.	Francis Bacon	beauty
11,562	22,971	I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to continue.	Donna Dixon	fitness
3,098	60,257	While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience.	Craig Kelly	respect
413	72,505	In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.	Jeff Goodell	war
6,125	60,027	Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11.	Al-Waleed bin Talal	respect
4,807	2,725	You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.	Jamie Campbell Bower	amazing
9,868	28,339	God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.	Ramakrishna	god
2,172	14,093	I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.	Florence Welch	death
4,820	57,647	But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.	Elton John	relationship
11,681	26,641	I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.	Albert Einstein	future
6,706	29,813	If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.	Milton Friedman	government
1,913	2,521	I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.	Reggie Watts	amazing
9,088	55,234	In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.	C. Northcote Parkinson	politics
9,469	65,826	I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.	Erykah Badu	success
2,955	5,945	Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.	Peter Nivio Zarlenga	beauty
11,226	50,061	The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.	Scott Caan	movies
6,051	5,137	Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.	Amanda Peet	beauty
5,195	5,034	What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did.	Grandmaster Flash	attitude
6,367	56,494	Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.	Allen Klein	power
3,112	22,658	The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.	Geraldine Brooks	fear
3,679	14,898	If you can eat 70 percent raw or introduce raw into your diet, it will help your health.	Carol Alt	diet
7,172	67,172	The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.	Tadao Ando	technology
7,982	17,835	Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.	Kinky Friedman	experience
697	44,477	Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.	Joseph Ratzinger	marriage
10,680	64,621	I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.	Harriet Tubman	strength
486	39,304	Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.	Lord Chesterfield	knowledge
1,513	84	Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.	Harold Coffin	age
5,861	38,193	I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.	Harvey Weinstein	inspirational
1,879	75,940	Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.	John Keats	valentinesday
1,563	29,935	I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more.	Clint Eastwood	government
3,958	29,256	Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.	Euripides	good
8,683	65,961	Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.	Murray Walker	success
887	45,961	If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?	Joan Baez	men
5,119	57,891	The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike.	Guy Lafleur	relationship
8,842	58,009	My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn't a fulfilling marriage for either of us.	LeAnn Rimes	relationship
2,414	73,668	Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors.	Voltaire	women
7,440	51,331	The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.	Jules Verne	nature
526	3,520	The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.	Tadao Ando	architecture
9,328	25,138	People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film.	Mike Mills	freedom
7,546	27,274	Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.	Lewis Thomas	future
6,800	6,040	Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.	Thomas Kincade	beauty
8,019	39,741	Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.	Arthur Machen	knowledge
10,489	50,282	Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.	Bryan Ferry	music
9,201	8,321	Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.	Jay Inslee	car
1,438	28,094	Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.	Victor Hugo	god
1,462	33,208	With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.	Ron Wyden	health
7,671	5,089	In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.	Naveen Jain	attitude
7,214	33,860	What is history but a fable agreed upon?	Napoleon Bonaparte	history
1,393	61,006	Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.	Daniel Craig	sad
4,049	67,459	Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.	Emily Greene Balch	technology
6,761	12,325	When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.	Danica McKellar	dad
2,684	44,592	But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.	Jack Kingston	marriage
152	54,297	The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.	Robert Morgan	poetry
11,386	51,312	Land really is the best art.	Andy Warhol	nature
4,227	19,762	Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.	Ray Lewis	faith
10,447	41,117	I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.	Freida Pinto	learning
8,794	57,314	That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.	Dee Dee Myers	power
10,194	40,589	Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.	Kid Rock	learning
3,177	62,917	I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.	Hillary Clinton	society
11,189	5,594	Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.	Gian Carlo Menotti	beauty
4,579	5,352	Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.	Jennifer Lopez	beauty
395	70,264	When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.	Faith Hill	trust
3,811	61,498	A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.	George Bernard Shaw	science
8,963	53,618	Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia.	Michael Mandelbaum	peace
4,698	58,906	Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.	Jon Meacham	religion
1,751	35,799	I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance, so if the right script comes along, and I certainly am reading comedies and dramas now, then I'm ready willing and able to give it a shot.	Dane Cook	home
2,694	1,111	It is better to be alone than in bad company.	George Washington	alone
2,309	64,227	In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.	Andy Roddick	sports
8,257	38,290	Genius is initiative on fire.	Holbrook Jackson	intelligence
10,671	35,015	I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.	Marie Corelli	home
5,902	33,650	Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.	John Cornyn	health
7,153	57,047	Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.	Jerry Saltz	power

3,005

18,798

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

Seth Godin

failure

6,061

61,466

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Adams

science

5,912

11,356

I have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it would maybe be exciting and cool. But I could record the same song next week and it would be something completely different.

Sondre Lerche

cool

8,958

17,663

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

Robertson Davies

experience

9,852

66,999

I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Steve Jobs

technology

7,627

1,401

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

Jeanette Winterson

alone

9,162

48,524

Too much coffee. Too much coffee and Gatorade. It's a hell of a mix. If you're ever tired in the morning, just try that mix, and tell me what you think.

Kevin Garnett

morning

9,626

32,816

A good education is another name for happiness.

Ann Plato

happiness

5,032

31,397

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

Swami Sivananda

great

3,134

19,295

Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.

Paul Tillich

faith

821

6,547

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

Annie Lennox

best

483

29,805

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Ronald Reagan

government

720

60,444

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Anita Brookner

romantic

595

75,279

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

Simone Weil

work

11,658

57,405

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

relationship

8,292

51,169

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

Norah Jones

music

11,133

7,220

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

Chris Evans

birthday

7,724

53,113

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

Jimmy Carter

peace

1,959

68,471

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Ernest Hemingway

time

9,400

68,219

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Charles Stanley

time

9,269

28,715

We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.

Karen Armstrong

god

474

15,792

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

education

7,914

2,060

We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac.

Steve Jobs

amazing

10,763

28,146

What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.

Rick Warren

god

2,913

47,198

If I have enough money to eat I'm good.

Shia LaBeouf

money

5,396

25,913

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.

Fred Allen

funny

1,527

31,152

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Oprah Winfrey

great

5,665

47,555

It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.

Kin Hubbard

money

10,629

5,335

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Francis Bacon

beauty

11,562

22,971

I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to continue.

Donna Dixon

fitness

3,098

60,257

While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience.

Craig Kelly

respect

413

72,505

In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.

Jeff Goodell

war

6,125

60,027

Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

respect

4,807

2,725

You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.

Jamie Campbell Bower

amazing

9,868

28,339

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

Ramakrishna

god

2,172

14,093

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

Florence Welch

death

4,820

57,647

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.

Elton John

relationship

11,681

26,641

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

future

6,706

29,813

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Milton Friedman

government

1,913

2,521

I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.

Reggie Watts

amazing

9,088

55,234

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

C. Northcote Parkinson

politics

9,469

65,826

I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.

Erykah Badu

success

2,955

5,945

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

beauty

11,226

50,061

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.

Scott Caan

movies

6,051

5,137

Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.

Amanda Peet

beauty

5,195

5,034

What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did.

Grandmaster Flash

attitude

6,367

56,494

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

Allen Klein

power

3,112

22,658

The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.

Geraldine Brooks

fear

3,679

14,898

If you can eat 70 percent raw or introduce raw into your diet, it will help your health.

Carol Alt

diet

7,172

67,172

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

Tadao Ando

technology

7,982

17,835

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

Kinky Friedman

experience

697

44,477

Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

Joseph Ratzinger

marriage

10,680

64,621

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

Harriet Tubman

strength

486

39,304

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Lord Chesterfield

knowledge

1,513

84

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

Harold Coffin

age

5,861

38,193

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

Harvey Weinstein

inspirational

1,879

75,940

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

John Keats

valentinesday

1,563

29,935

I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more.

Clint Eastwood

government

3,958

29,256

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

Euripides

good

8,683

65,961

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

Murray Walker

success

887

45,961

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

Joan Baez

men

5,119

57,891

The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike.

Guy Lafleur

relationship

8,842

58,009

My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn't a fulfilling marriage for either of us.

LeAnn Rimes

relationship

2,414

73,668

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Voltaire

women

7,440

51,331

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

Jules Verne

nature

526

3,520

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

Tadao Ando

architecture

9,328

25,138

People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film.

Mike Mills

freedom

7,546

27,274

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.

Lewis Thomas

future

6,800

6,040

Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.

Thomas Kincade

beauty

8,019

39,741

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

Arthur Machen

knowledge

10,489

50,282

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

Bryan Ferry

music

9,201

8,321

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

Jay Inslee

car

1,438

28,094

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Victor Hugo

god

1,462

33,208

With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.

Ron Wyden

health

7,671

5,089

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

Naveen Jain

attitude

7,214

33,860

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Napoleon Bonaparte

history

1,393

61,006

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

Daniel Craig

sad

4,049

67,459

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

Emily Greene Balch

technology

6,761

12,325

When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

Danica McKellar

dad

2,684

44,592

But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

Jack Kingston

marriage

152

54,297

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

Robert Morgan

poetry

11,386

51,312

Land really is the best art.

Andy Warhol

nature

4,227

19,762

Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.

Ray Lewis

faith

10,447

41,117

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

Freida Pinto

learning

8,794

57,314

That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.

Dee Dee Myers

power

10,194

40,589

Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.

Kid Rock

learning

3,177

62,917

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

Hillary Clinton

society

11,189

5,594

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Gian Carlo Menotti

beauty

4,579

5,352

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

Jennifer Lopez

beauty

395

70,264

When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.

Faith Hill

trust

3,811

61,498

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

George Bernard Shaw

science

8,963

53,618

Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia.

Michael Mandelbaum

peace

4,698

58,906

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.

Jon Meacham

religion

1,751

35,799

I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance, so if the right script comes along, and I certainly am reading comedies and dramas now, then I'm ready willing and able to give it a shot.

Dane Cook

home

2,694

1,111

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

George Washington

alone

2,309

64,227

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

Andy Roddick

sports

8,257

38,290

Genius is initiative on fire.

Holbrook Jackson

intelligence

10,671

35,015

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

Marie Corelli

home

5,902

33,650

Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.

John Cornyn

health

7,153

57,047

Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.

Jerry Saltz

power