c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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3,361	16,926	Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.	Barry Commoner	environmental
10,653	13,885	Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.	Larry Wall	death
422	37,484	The human race is governed by its imagination.	Napoleon Bonaparte	imagination
6,360	62,732	The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.	James A. Baldwin	society
4,564	10,219	There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.	Miroslav Vitous	communication
1,535	12,319	I'm turning into a stricter dad.	David Duchovny	dad
6,951	37,577	My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.	Ursula K. Le Guin	imagination
5,758	8,734	We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers.	Daryl Hannah	car
6,025	20,604	I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.	LaToya Jackson	family
8,972	14,730	What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.	Alexander Pope	diet
10,801	37,518	Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.	Stephen King	imagination
2,108	53,236	Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.	Anwar Sadat	peace
6,500	43,202	And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.	Khalil Gibran	love
1,848	28,955	When one has not had a good father, one must create one.	Friedrich Nietzsche	good
5,131	38,905	But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.	Herodotus	jealousy
2,645	33,126	The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.	Mark Hyman	health
3,295	54,089	Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.	Horace Walpole	poetry
11,732	72,784	Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	wisdom
2,331	37,240	There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.	Alan Thicke	humor
9,243	16,986	And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.	Ed Rendell	environmental
693	27,739	God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.	Billy Graham	god
388	16,138	Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.	Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel	education
4,930	65,367	Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.	Jim Rohn	success
1,953	72,459	Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.	Conrad Black	war
2,397	47,971	Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.	Moshe Dayan	money
8,341	25,703	A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.	Laurence J. Peter	funny
5,295	31,492	My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.	Danica Patrick	great
99	38,741	Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.	Charles Evans Hughes	intelligence
10,075	57,523	I could see myself in a relationship with a girl Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing.	Megan Fox	relationship
2,885	7,455	A man should never neglect his family for business.	Walt Disney	business
1,157	73,811	If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?	Virginia Woolf	women
972	30,106	There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.	Andrew Jackson	government
535	75,294	The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.	Johnny Cash	work
9,136	50,747	Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.	Camille Paglia	music
10,710	50,553	Music fathoms the sky.	Charles Baudelaire	music
6,907	67,525	Intel's still our main partner. We have not announced anything with AMD and don't have anything planned, but we're constantly being aware to make sure our customers get the best technology.	Kevin Rollins	technology
5,598	53,296	It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.	Diane Kruger	peace
2,113	9,281	Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.	Barack Obama	change
4,468	39,022	Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.	Arthur Conan Doyle	knowledge
6,481	12,050	Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.	Mary Daly	courage
5,825	65,240	Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.	Elbert Hubbard	success
4,656	70,442	Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.	Herb Kohl	trust
7,067	62,179	Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.	Tony Visconti	science
3,410	59,358	The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.	Lytton Strachey	religion
4,597	19,647	I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.	Tim McGraw	faith
4,440	28,415	Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.	Henri Nouwen	god
6,076	23,664	I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak.	Michael Symon	food
2,296	29,227	Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.	Robert Louis Stevenson	good
4,598	53,624	In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans.	Solomon Ortiz	peace
8,681	9,680	Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.	Eric McCormack	change
5,394	3,051	We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.	Alanis Morissette	anger
5,424	31,265	He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.	Norman Schwarzkopf	great
9,881	15,951	Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.	Mitt Romney	education
6,371	67,989	In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.	Albert Schweitzer	thankful
4,503	42,536	The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.	Robert Frost	life
1,022	21,119	The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.	Kristen Stewart	famous
2,974	44,556	Marriage gives you a new respect for a person.	Katharine McPhee	marriage
6,973	12,967	When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.	Fantasia Barrino	dad
7,959	38,432	I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.	Michael Caine	intelligence
6,382	30,400	Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.	Thomas Frank	government
3,162	43,776	Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.	Barbara de Angelis	love
10,120	14,603	I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.	Michael Arad	design
7,289	57,892	I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.	Dave Matthews	relationship
7,110	73,983	I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.	Annie Lennox	women
9,712	59,454	But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.	Chaka Khan	respect
6,467	21,353	Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.	Anne Hathaway	famous
9,883	43,292	Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.	Oscar Wilde	love
10,161	72,352	Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.	Graham Greene	war
8,200	55,057	Finality is not the language of politics.	Benjamin Disraeli	politics
1,596	51,136	I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.	Danny Boyle	music
300	1,788	Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.	Eric Ries	alone
312	63,805	Boxing has become America's tragic theater.	Joyce Carol Oates	sports
11,801	71,334	Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.	Alain Badiou	truth
1,992	5,803	All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.	Evelyn Underhill	beauty
4,624	45,359	Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.	William Shakespeare	men
9,884	43,402	There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.	Ernest Hemingway	love
7,438	70,121	Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money.	Howard Dean	trust
6,224	64,294	If I was invincible, maybe I would take up some extreme sports.	Tom Welling	sports
7,126	50,854	There is still a future with music, because people want music.	Maynard James Keenan	music
9,925	52,431	Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.	Sammy Davis, Jr.	patience
10,975	5,821	It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.	Story Musgrave	beauty
8,691	44,364	When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. 'Wet' is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin'.	Snoop Dogg	marriage
695	35,541	Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'	Bill Nighy	home
7,748	22,340	Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.	Lewis Mumford	fear
4,103	50,002	James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.	Mark Wahlberg	movies
4,229	16,559	Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.	Bobby Scott	education
7,150	23,906	My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.	Nana Mouskouri	food
8,396	53,284	The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.	Jonathan Sacks	peace
2,178	39,215	Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.	Isaac Bashevis Singer	knowledge
4,997	29,270	As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.	Lucius Annaeus Seneca	good
6,141	43,346	There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.	Bryant H. McGill	love
3,203	71,151	I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.	Venus Williams	truth
3,105	21,862	Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.	Marilyn Monroe	fear
1,942	57,469	Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.	Marianne Faithfull	relationship
9,033	54,091	Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.	Lascelles Abercrombie	poetry
5,483	63,598	You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.	Colin Farrell	society
7,644	63,265	We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.	Joe Biden	society
9,772	28,385	I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.	Lil' Kim	god
10,513	24,033	I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.	Mario Lemieux	food
2,337	63,876	If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.	Marilyn Monroe	sports

3,361

16,926

Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

Barry Commoner

environmental

10,653

13,885

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

Larry Wall

death

422

37,484

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Napoleon Bonaparte

imagination

6,360

62,732

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

James A. Baldwin

society

4,564

10,219

There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.

Miroslav Vitous

communication

1,535

12,319

I'm turning into a stricter dad.

David Duchovny

dad

6,951

37,577

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

imagination

5,758

8,734

We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers.

Daryl Hannah

car

6,025

20,604

I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.

LaToya Jackson

family

8,972

14,730

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Alexander Pope

diet

10,801

37,518

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

Stephen King

imagination

2,108

53,236

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

Anwar Sadat

peace

6,500

43,202

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Khalil Gibran

love

1,848

28,955

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Friedrich Nietzsche

good

5,131

38,905

But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.

Herodotus

jealousy

2,645

33,126

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.

Mark Hyman

health

3,295

54,089

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Horace Walpole

poetry

11,732

72,784

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

wisdom

2,331

37,240

There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.

Alan Thicke

humor

9,243

16,986

And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.

Ed Rendell

environmental

693

27,739

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Billy Graham

god

388

16,138

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

education

4,930

65,367

Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

success

1,953

72,459

Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.

Conrad Black

war

2,397

47,971

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

Moshe Dayan

money

8,341

25,703

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

Laurence J. Peter

funny

5,295

31,492

My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.

Danica Patrick

great

99

38,741

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

Charles Evans Hughes

intelligence

10,075

57,523

I could see myself in a relationship with a girl Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing.

Megan Fox

relationship

2,885

7,455

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Walt Disney

business

1,157

73,811

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Virginia Woolf

women

972

30,106

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Andrew Jackson

government

535

75,294

The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.

Johnny Cash

work

9,136

50,747

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

Camille Paglia

music

10,710

50,553

Music fathoms the sky.

Charles Baudelaire

music

6,907

67,525

Intel's still our main partner. We have not announced anything with AMD and don't have anything planned, but we're constantly being aware to make sure our customers get the best technology.

Kevin Rollins

technology

5,598

53,296

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.

Diane Kruger

peace

2,113

9,281

Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.

Barack Obama

change

4,468

39,022

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Arthur Conan Doyle

knowledge

6,481

12,050

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

Mary Daly

courage

5,825

65,240

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Elbert Hubbard

success

4,656

70,442

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

Herb Kohl

trust

7,067

62,179

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

Tony Visconti

science

3,410

59,358

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

Lytton Strachey

religion

4,597

19,647

I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.

Tim McGraw

faith

4,440

28,415

Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.

Henri Nouwen

god

6,076

23,664

I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak.

Michael Symon

food

2,296

29,227

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

good

4,598

53,624

In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans.

Solomon Ortiz

peace

8,681

9,680

Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.

Eric McCormack

change

5,394

3,051

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

Alanis Morissette

anger

5,424

31,265

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.

Norman Schwarzkopf

great

9,881

15,951

Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.

Mitt Romney

education

6,371

67,989

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

thankful

4,503

42,536

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Robert Frost

life

1,022

21,119

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

Kristen Stewart

famous

2,974

44,556

Marriage gives you a new respect for a person.

Katharine McPhee

marriage

6,973

12,967

When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.

Fantasia Barrino

dad

7,959

38,432

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

Michael Caine

intelligence

6,382

30,400

Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.

Thomas Frank

government

3,162

43,776

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Barbara de Angelis

love

10,120

14,603

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

Michael Arad

design

7,289

57,892

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

Dave Matthews

relationship

7,110

73,983

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

Annie Lennox

women

9,712

59,454

But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.

Chaka Khan

respect

6,467

21,353

Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.

Anne Hathaway

famous

9,883

43,292

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Oscar Wilde

love

10,161

72,352

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

Graham Greene

war

8,200

55,057

Finality is not the language of politics.

Benjamin Disraeli

politics

1,596

51,136

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

Danny Boyle

music

300

1,788

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

Eric Ries

alone

312

63,805

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Joyce Carol Oates

sports

11,801

71,334

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Alain Badiou

truth

1,992

5,803

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

Evelyn Underhill

beauty

4,624

45,359

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

William Shakespeare

men

9,884

43,402

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Ernest Hemingway

love

7,438

70,121

Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money.

Howard Dean

trust

6,224

64,294

If I was invincible, maybe I would take up some extreme sports.

Tom Welling

sports

7,126

50,854

There is still a future with music, because people want music.

Maynard James Keenan

music

9,925

52,431

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

patience

10,975

5,821

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

Story Musgrave

beauty

8,691

44,364

When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. 'Wet' is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin'.

Snoop Dogg

marriage

695

35,541

Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'

Bill Nighy

home

7,748

22,340

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Lewis Mumford

fear

4,103

50,002

James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.

Mark Wahlberg

movies

4,229

16,559

Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

Bobby Scott

education

7,150

23,906

My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.

Nana Mouskouri

food

8,396

53,284

The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.

Jonathan Sacks

peace

2,178

39,215

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

knowledge

4,997

29,270

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

good

6,141

43,346

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Bryant H. McGill

love

3,203

71,151

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

Venus Williams

truth

3,105

21,862

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

Marilyn Monroe

fear

1,942

57,469

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

Marianne Faithfull

relationship

9,033

54,091

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

Lascelles Abercrombie

poetry

5,483

63,598

You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.

Colin Farrell

society

7,644

63,265

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

Joe Biden

society

9,772

28,385

I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.

Lil' Kim

god

10,513

24,033

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

Mario Lemieux

food

2,337

63,876

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

Marilyn Monroe

sports