c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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9,086	63,091	Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.	Paul Ryan	society
8,917	67,410	The federal government... knows how to put a missile in someone's room half way around the world with technology. Why don't we use some of that technology to save some lives here in America?	Michael Nutter	technology
7,845	45,452	If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!	Marilyn Monroe	men
1,313	9,697	One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.	Philip Wylie	change
7,705	59,431	I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.	Margaret Mead	respect
5,679	3,951	I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!	Victor Hugo	art
11,433	17,496	I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.	P. J. O'Rourke	experience
8,949	27,295	I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.	Wilma Mankiller	future
3,193	67,986	I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.	Alfred Russel Wallace	thankful
11,730	56,248	For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.	Lisa Leslie	positive
11,804	29,756	People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.	Robert Half	government
9,663	48,406	I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It's not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks.	Paula Deen	morning
1,342	21,442	Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director,' because nobody has any idea.	Rebecca Hall	famous
2,403	6,038	I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.	Jeff Vandermeer	beauty
7,196	73,615	Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.	Pat Robertson	women
10,598	34,193	The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.	Eric Hoffer	history
5,111	51,120	There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.	Joni Mitchell	music
2,444	51,580	To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.	Isaac Asimov	nature
9,289	28,634	To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.	Jorge Luis Borges	god
3,950	19,120	I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.	Michael Malone	faith
8,069	68,218	Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.	Mark Twain	time
11,659	72,343	Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed and war is an extension of those politics.	H. Rap Brown	war
1,771	67,456	You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.	Chris Lowe	technology
4,373	29,004	Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.	Joan Rivers	good
868	48,926	The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake-up call to men and women that drinking and smoking too much not only gives you a bad headache in the morning but can affect your ability to start a family.	Ann Robinson	morning
7,473	69,077	It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.	Harry S. Truman	time
9,307	14,370	Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.	Freeman Thomas	design
11,288	67,141	The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.	James Dyson	technology
9,346	22,304	You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.	Christina Ricci	fear
3,580	11,135	It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.	Trisha Yearwood	cool
10,306	50,092	I often begin movies with music in my head it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.	Mira Nair	movies
3,256	41,723	We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.	Bob Ney	legal
2,971	72,475	After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.	Barney Ross	war
11,489	19,412	The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?	Dan Quayle	faith
3,832	66,648	I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.	Garrett Hedlund	teacher
3,866	15,544	Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.	Henry Reed	dreams
4,135	64,810	There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.	Arthur Scargill	strength
3,787	57,226	I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.	Ehud Olmert	power
9,803	23,151	That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.	Daryl Hannah	food
10,683	7,283	I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday.	Jesse Plemons	birthday
5,601	36,963	An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.	Constance Rourke	humor
5,040	7,902	There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.	Michael Bloomberg	business
10,834	51,458	What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.	Henry David Thoreau	nature
5,943	42,801	Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.	Charles Spurgeon	life
9,187	57,543	The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.	Milton Glaser	relationship
11,196	50,671	I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.	Freddie Mercury	music
3,686	4,285	Money is something that can be measured art is not. It's all subjective.	Jerry Saltz	art
7,414	4,251	I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.	Paul Cezanne	art
14	34,407	I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.	Elton John	history
1,717	7,577	My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.	Benjamin Disraeli	business
9,954	9,901	There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.	Henry George	change
1,452	9,102	Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.	Bill Copeland	change
3,972	17,198	In 1965, I marched for equality.	Alphonso Jackson	equality
3,590	42,878	A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.	Honore de Balzac	love
5,857	47,796	I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.	Michael Caine	money
10,536	51,047	Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.	Rod Stewart	music
3,313	7,345	Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.	Gary Ryan Blair	business
2,568	61,195	My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.	Amber Tamblyn	sad
4,325	11,449	L.A.'s cool I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.	Shooter Jennings	cool
2,052	66,263	You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.	Max Beerbohm	sympathy
1,163	36,996	People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.	Gary Oldman	humor
8,443	34,120	Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.	Chuck Palahniuk	history
9,951	35,968	The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.	Thomas Hardy	hope
7,877	39,263	Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.	Vine Deloria, Jr.	knowledge
7,587	10,820	I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby.	Anne Hathaway	cool
7,160	31,095	If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.	Theodore Roosevelt	great
2,365	34,457	The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.	Horatio Alger	history
9,141	26,293	I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'	Paul Feig	funny
10,797	41,870	Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.	Sholom Aleichem	life
617	74,649	Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.	Jim Rohn	work
11,340	72,120	Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.	Toni Morrison	war
1,218	4,495	Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.	John Updike	art
7,208	15,401	There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.	Jonas Salk	dreams
6,707	50,541	The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.	David Bowie	music
6,585	41,712	You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.	Anatoly Chubais	legal
4,771	12,644	My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.	Benicio Del Toro	dad
3,852	54,650	In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.	Archie Shepp	poetry
8,900	48,053	There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.	Harriet Ann Jacobs	money
6,299	74,778	It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.	Harry S. Truman	work
7,461	74,533	Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.	Abraham Lincoln	work
1,603	19,730	When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.	Richard Morris	faith
1,010	12,084	There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.	Patrick Campbell	courage
7,779	5,142	Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	beauty
2,944	9,258	When you blame others, you give up your power to change.	Robert Anthony	change
4,973	14,219	Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.	Yasser Arafat	death
2,734	53,449	One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.	Peace Pilgrim	peace
5,220	46,081	But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'	Gertrude Stein	men
8,957	61,271	It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.	Kendrick Meek	sad
44	18,720	If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.	Gloria Swanson	failure
550	12,035	Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.	Vittorio Alfieri	courage
8,140	47,595	My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.	Marilyn Manson	money
3,535	1,024	Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.	B. R. Ambedkar	alone
10,643	71,164	From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.	Tom Stoppard	truth
151	35,404	I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan.	John Cusack	home
10,476	44,507	My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.	Sophie Ellis Bextor	marriage
1,659	61,447	The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.	Paul Valery	science
7,031	63,316	The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.	Henrik Ibsen	society
3,670	51,725	Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.	Thomas Huxley	nature
7,687	14,073	Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.	Dan Savage	death
5,380	57,246	The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.	Shimon Peres	power

9,086

63,091

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

Paul Ryan

society

8,917

67,410

The federal government... knows how to put a missile in someone's room half way around the world with technology. Why don't we use some of that technology to save some lives here in America?

Michael Nutter

technology

7,845

45,452

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Marilyn Monroe

men

1,313

9,697

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

Philip Wylie

change

7,705

59,431

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Margaret Mead

respect

5,679

3,951

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

Victor Hugo

art

11,433

17,496

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

P. J. O'Rourke

experience

8,949

27,295

I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

Wilma Mankiller

future

3,193

67,986

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

Alfred Russel Wallace

thankful

11,730

56,248

For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.

Lisa Leslie

positive

11,804

29,756

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

Robert Half

government

9,663

48,406

I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It's not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks.

Paula Deen

morning

1,342

21,442

Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director,' because nobody has any idea.

Rebecca Hall

famous

2,403

6,038

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

Jeff Vandermeer

beauty

7,196

73,615

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

Pat Robertson

women

10,598

34,193

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Eric Hoffer

history

5,111

51,120

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

Joni Mitchell

music

2,444

51,580

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

Isaac Asimov

nature

9,289

28,634

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Jorge Luis Borges

god

3,950

19,120

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

Michael Malone

faith

8,069

68,218

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

time

11,659

72,343

Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed and war is an extension of those politics.

H. Rap Brown

war

1,771

67,456

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.

Chris Lowe

technology

4,373

29,004

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Joan Rivers

good

868

48,926

The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake-up call to men and women that drinking and smoking too much not only gives you a bad headache in the morning but can affect your ability to start a family.

Ann Robinson

morning

7,473

69,077

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

Harry S. Truman

time

9,307

14,370

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

Freeman Thomas

design

11,288

67,141

The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.

James Dyson

technology

9,346

22,304

You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.

Christina Ricci

fear

3,580

11,135

It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.

Trisha Yearwood

cool

10,306

50,092

I often begin movies with music in my head it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.

Mira Nair

movies

3,256

41,723

We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.

Bob Ney

legal

2,971

72,475

After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.

Barney Ross

war

11,489

19,412

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

Dan Quayle

faith

3,832

66,648

I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.

Garrett Hedlund

teacher

3,866

15,544

Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.

Henry Reed

dreams

4,135

64,810

There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

Arthur Scargill

strength

3,787

57,226

I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.

Ehud Olmert

power

9,803

23,151

That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.

Daryl Hannah

food

10,683

7,283

I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday.

Jesse Plemons

birthday

5,601

36,963

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Constance Rourke

humor

5,040

7,902

There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.

Michael Bloomberg

business

10,834

51,458

What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Henry David Thoreau

nature

5,943

42,801

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Charles Spurgeon

life

9,187

57,543

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

Milton Glaser

relationship

11,196

50,671

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

Freddie Mercury

music

3,686

4,285

Money is something that can be measured art is not. It's all subjective.

Jerry Saltz

art

7,414

4,251

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

Paul Cezanne

art

14

34,407

I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.

Elton John

history

1,717

7,577

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Benjamin Disraeli

business

9,954

9,901

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Henry George

change

1,452

9,102

Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.

Bill Copeland

change

3,972

17,198

In 1965, I marched for equality.

Alphonso Jackson

equality

3,590

42,878

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Honore de Balzac

love

5,857

47,796

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

Michael Caine

money

10,536

51,047

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

Rod Stewart

music

3,313

7,345

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

Gary Ryan Blair

business

2,568

61,195

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

Amber Tamblyn

sad

4,325

11,449

L.A.'s cool I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.

Shooter Jennings

cool

2,052

66,263

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

Max Beerbohm

sympathy

1,163

36,996

People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.

Gary Oldman

humor

8,443

34,120

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

history

9,951

35,968

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Thomas Hardy

hope

7,877

39,263

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

Vine Deloria, Jr.

knowledge

7,587

10,820

I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby.

Anne Hathaway

cool

7,160

31,095

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Theodore Roosevelt

great

2,365

34,457

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

Horatio Alger

history

9,141

26,293

I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'

Paul Feig

funny

10,797

41,870

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Sholom Aleichem

life

617

74,649

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Jim Rohn

work

11,340

72,120

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

Toni Morrison

war

1,218

4,495

Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

John Updike

art

7,208

15,401

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Jonas Salk

dreams

6,707

50,541

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

David Bowie

music

6,585

41,712

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

Anatoly Chubais

legal

4,771

12,644

My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

Benicio Del Toro

dad

3,852

54,650

In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.

Archie Shepp

poetry

8,900

48,053

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

money

6,299

74,778

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Harry S. Truman

work

7,461

74,533

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Abraham Lincoln

work

1,603

19,730

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.

Richard Morris

faith

1,010

12,084

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

Patrick Campbell

courage

7,779

5,142

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

beauty

2,944

9,258

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

Robert Anthony

change

4,973

14,219

Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.

Yasser Arafat

death

2,734

53,449

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Peace Pilgrim

peace

5,220

46,081

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

Gertrude Stein

men

8,957

61,271

It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.

Kendrick Meek

sad

44

18,720

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

Gloria Swanson

failure

550

12,035

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

Vittorio Alfieri

courage

8,140

47,595

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.

Marilyn Manson

money

3,535

1,024

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

B. R. Ambedkar

alone

10,643

71,164

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Tom Stoppard

truth

151

35,404

I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan.

John Cusack

home

10,476

44,507

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.

Sophie Ellis Bextor

marriage

1,659

61,447

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Paul Valery

science

7,031

63,316

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

Henrik Ibsen

society

3,670

51,725

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

Thomas Huxley

nature

7,687

14,073

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

Dan Savage

death

5,380

57,246

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

Shimon Peres

power