c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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9,696	56,529	I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.	Martin Luther King, Jr.	power
5,064	58,476	We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.	George A. Smith	religion
11,362	11,235	When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.	Patrick Rothfuss	cool
9,774	61,443	The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.	Gertrude Stein	science
7,199	981	In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.	Lance Bass	age
10,704	24,260	We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.	Herbert Spencer	freedom
7,593	11,841	TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.	Sharon Stone	courage
4,359	58,947	Selfishness is the only real atheism unselfishness the only real religion.	Israel Zangwill	religion
10,567	57,072	No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.	John Jay	power
11,753	72,581	Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.	King Edward VIII	wedding
10,659	33,745	Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.	Felicity Huffman	health
4,876	32,104	Beauty is the promise of happiness.	Edmund Burke	happiness
1,693	29,526	To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.	Avril Lavigne	good
5,201	23,696	But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant.	Nicole Polizzi	food
1,732	8,731	A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you, you can hunt for food with it - you know, the tool itself is a tool. The intention of the party using the tool is a part of the process, right? You know: the knife cuts the steak, stabs the person, saves somebody from danger, cuts somebody out of a car.	Peter Guber	car
684	23,080	A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.	Aesop	food
1,037	43,164	Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.	Denis Waitley	love
5,817	32,894	When wealth is lost, nothing is lost when health is lost, something is lost when character is lost, all is lost.	Billy Graham	health
5,368	46	Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.	Betty Friedan	age
5,088	25,553	One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.	Marcelene Cox	friendship
11,686	53,235	There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.	John Boyd Orr	peace
8,072	49,205	Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.	Harvey Fierstein	movies
4,976	298	This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.	Stendhal	age
6,257	22,802	You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.	Nathan Fillion	finance
1,519	72,980	If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.	William Butler Yeats	wisdom
1,743	14,950	Mine is the least fat diet in the world.	Pierre Dukan	diet
8,712	52,064	Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.	Graham Greene	nature
10,752	61,082	I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'	George Clooney	sad
5,946	37,382	To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.	Thomas A. Edison	imagination
8,370	54,781	It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.	Joseph Stalin	politics
4,838	17,908	The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	experience
3,310	70,567	Light is the symbol of truth.	James Russell Lowell	truth
558	35,621	I have a life that I enjoy I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.	Jewel	home
4,201	10,504	It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!	Warwick Davis	computers
3,842	23,913	Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.	L'Wren Scott	food
6,040	69,705	Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.	Lea Seydoux	travel
11,323	32,067	God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.	Aldous Huxley	happiness
210	1,880	After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.	Nancy Grace	alone
10,367	8,196	I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.	Anthony Kiedis	business
3,954	64,407	Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.	Phil Knight	sports
7,312	3,867	It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.	Oscar Wilde	art
1,833	14,394	Interior design is a business of trust.	Venus Williams	design
129	49,378	It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.	Kristen Stewart	movies
9,693	51,731	Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.	Eric Hoffer	nature
5,531	21,666	I haven't paid for anything since I became famous.	Melissa de la Cruz	famous
10,289	46,046	Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.	Thomas Szasz	men
9,428	38,925	Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!	Sylvia Kristel	jealousy
2,924	8,480	Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.	Carlos Ghosn	car
9,222	75,366	Every man should have laws of his own, I should think commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.	Gilbert Parker	work
2,540	50,811	Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.	Shania Twain	music
5,994	43,046	For love is immortality.	Emily Dickinson	love
8,532	56,258	Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved.	Nile Rodgers	positive
3,303	6,413	Luck marches with those who give their very best.	H. Jackson Brown, Jr.	best
9,763	12,987	For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!	Connie Britton	dad
8,625	23,590	People ask me how I keep my figure, and I tell them it's because I paint. When you're covered in paint, it's quite hard to put food in your mouth!	Jane Seymour	food
10,277	10,491	You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.	Chuck D.	computers
2,284	64,029	When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	sports
10,146	13,219	If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.	Candace Bushnell	dating
3,457	46,266	My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.	Quentin Tarantino	mom
1,841	59,376	The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.	John Paul Stevens	religion
11,294	10,963	If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.	Emilio Estevez	cool
4,739	35,292	I'm actually graduating early. I got a lot of work done already. Being home schooled, I have had a lot of tutors help me.	Miley Cyrus	home
5,765	5,816	My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'	Robin Roberts	beauty
5,504	21,551	You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.	Cliff Martinez	famous
436	63,428	My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.	Sloane Crosley	society
6,619	3,845	It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.	Albert Einstein	art
9,655	26,465	Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'	Jack Dee	funny
7,582	28,939	I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.	Gillian Anderson	good
10,303	3,756	What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.	John Berger	art
2,437	45,949	The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.	Charles Dickens	men
11,818	54,300	Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.	Robert Morgan	poetry
6,482	3,201	Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.	Chaz Bono	anger
10,351	44,095	Marriage is the death of hope.	Woody Allen	marriage
5,170	13,230	I have no wisdom to share on dating.	Rachel Dratch	dating
5,788	46,712	My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.	Victor Cruz	mom
2,967	35,675	Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.	Roald Dahl	home
4,615	37,980	Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.	Donna Brazile	imagination
5,476	53,580	Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.	Henry Cabot Lodge	peace
11,767	47,848	I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.	Dave Davies	money
5,428	49,743	I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies.	Emma Roberts	movies
11,101	27,349	Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.	Dean Kamen	future
9,211	18,622	The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.	David Suzuki	failure
2,593	1,043	As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.	Hermann Hesse	alone
3,702	45,064	Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.	Chris Van Hollen	medical
2,150	16,795	If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.	Joseph Wood Krutch	environmental
4,096	57,462	I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.	Ron Chernow	relationship
2,297	9,049	Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.	Barack Obama	change
9,603	48,295	Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.	Yoko Ono	morning
2,698	58,660	Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.	Nathaniel Hawthorne	religion
1,568	23,824	I don't really believe in diets. I love food... If I deprive myself, I'm going to want it more. I snack on yogurt, raw cashews and cherry tomatoes.	Nicole Scherzinger	food
7,603	36,754	I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope.	Joel Schumacher	hope
9,039	29,184	It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.	George Eliot	good
11,320	331	There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.	Franklin P. Adams	age
7,586	22,355	Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.	Jack Lemmon	fear
8,282	25,906	I can speak Esperanto like a native.	Spike Milligan	funny
7,857	74,072	I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.	Tori Amos	women
1,562	61,282	It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.	Jerry Stiller	sad
9,748	40,048	The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.	Charles de Gaulle	leadership
3,159	34,452	If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.	Ron Fournier	history
11,771	71,516	The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.	Lewis Thomas	truth

9,696

56,529

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

power

5,064

58,476

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

George A. Smith

religion

11,362

11,235

When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.

Patrick Rothfuss

cool

9,774

61,443

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Gertrude Stein

science

7,199

981

In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.

Lance Bass

age

10,704

24,260

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Herbert Spencer

freedom

7,593

11,841

TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.

Sharon Stone

courage

4,359

58,947

Selfishness is the only real atheism unselfishness the only real religion.

Israel Zangwill

religion

10,567

57,072

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

John Jay

power

11,753

72,581

Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.

King Edward VIII

wedding

10,659

33,745

Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

Felicity Huffman

health

4,876

32,104

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Edmund Burke

happiness

1,693

29,526

To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.

Avril Lavigne

good

5,201

23,696

But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant.

Nicole Polizzi

food

1,732

8,731

A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you, you can hunt for food with it - you know, the tool itself is a tool. The intention of the party using the tool is a part of the process, right? You know: the knife cuts the steak, stabs the person, saves somebody from danger, cuts somebody out of a car.

Peter Guber

car

684

23,080

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Aesop

food

1,037

43,164

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

love

5,817

32,894

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost when health is lost, something is lost when character is lost, all is lost.

Billy Graham

health

5,368

46

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan

age

5,088

25,553

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.

Marcelene Cox

friendship

11,686

53,235

There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.

John Boyd Orr

peace

8,072

49,205

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

Harvey Fierstein

movies

4,976

298

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

Stendhal

age

6,257

22,802

You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.

Nathan Fillion

finance

1,519

72,980

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

William Butler Yeats

wisdom

1,743

14,950

Mine is the least fat diet in the world.

Pierre Dukan

diet

8,712

52,064

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Graham Greene

nature

10,752

61,082

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

George Clooney

sad

5,946

37,382

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas A. Edison

imagination

8,370

54,781

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Joseph Stalin

politics

4,838

17,908

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

experience

3,310

70,567

Light is the symbol of truth.

James Russell Lowell

truth

558

35,621

I have a life that I enjoy I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.

Jewel

home

4,201

10,504

It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!

Warwick Davis

computers

3,842

23,913

Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.

L'Wren Scott

food

6,040

69,705

Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.

Lea Seydoux

travel

11,323

32,067

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Aldous Huxley

happiness

210

1,880

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

Nancy Grace

alone

10,367

8,196

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

Anthony Kiedis

business

3,954

64,407

Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.

Phil Knight

sports

7,312

3,867

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Oscar Wilde

art

1,833

14,394

Interior design is a business of trust.

Venus Williams

design

129

49,378

It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.

Kristen Stewart

movies

9,693

51,731

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Eric Hoffer

nature

5,531

21,666

I haven't paid for anything since I became famous.

Melissa de la Cruz

famous

10,289

46,046

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

Thomas Szasz

men

9,428

38,925

Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!

Sylvia Kristel

jealousy

2,924

8,480

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

Carlos Ghosn

car

9,222

75,366

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

Gilbert Parker

work

2,540

50,811

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.

Shania Twain

music

5,994

43,046

For love is immortality.

Emily Dickinson

love

8,532

56,258

Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved.

Nile Rodgers

positive

3,303

6,413

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

best

9,763

12,987

For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!

Connie Britton

dad

8,625

23,590

People ask me how I keep my figure, and I tell them it's because I paint. When you're covered in paint, it's quite hard to put food in your mouth!

Jane Seymour

food

10,277

10,491

You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.

Chuck D.

computers

2,284

64,029

When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

sports

10,146

13,219

If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.

Candace Bushnell

dating

3,457

46,266

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

Quentin Tarantino

mom

1,841

59,376

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

John Paul Stevens

religion

11,294

10,963

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.

Emilio Estevez

cool

4,739

35,292

I'm actually graduating early. I got a lot of work done already. Being home schooled, I have had a lot of tutors help me.

Miley Cyrus

home

5,765

5,816

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'

Robin Roberts

beauty

5,504

21,551

You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.

Cliff Martinez

famous

436

63,428

My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.

Sloane Crosley

society

6,619

3,845

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

art

9,655

26,465

Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'

Jack Dee

funny

7,582

28,939

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.

Gillian Anderson

good

10,303

3,756

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

John Berger

art

2,437

45,949

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Charles Dickens

men

11,818

54,300

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

Robert Morgan

poetry

6,482

3,201

Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.

Chaz Bono

anger

10,351

44,095

Marriage is the death of hope.

Woody Allen

marriage

5,170

13,230

I have no wisdom to share on dating.

Rachel Dratch

dating

5,788

46,712

My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.

Victor Cruz

mom

2,967

35,675

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

Roald Dahl

home

4,615

37,980

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

Donna Brazile

imagination

5,476

53,580

Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.

Henry Cabot Lodge

peace

11,767

47,848

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

Dave Davies

money

5,428

49,743

I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies.

Emma Roberts

movies

11,101

27,349

Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.

Dean Kamen

future

9,211

18,622

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

David Suzuki

failure

2,593

1,043

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Hermann Hesse

alone

3,702

45,064

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

Chris Van Hollen

medical

2,150

16,795

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Joseph Wood Krutch

environmental

4,096

57,462

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

Ron Chernow

relationship

2,297

9,049

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama

change

9,603

48,295

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

Yoko Ono

morning

2,698

58,660

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

religion

1,568

23,824

I don't really believe in diets. I love food... If I deprive myself, I'm going to want it more. I snack on yogurt, raw cashews and cherry tomatoes.

Nicole Scherzinger

food

7,603

36,754

I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope.

Joel Schumacher

hope

9,039

29,184

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

George Eliot

good

11,320

331

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Franklin P. Adams

age

7,586

22,355

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

Jack Lemmon

fear

8,282

25,906

I can speak Esperanto like a native.

Spike Milligan

funny

7,857

74,072

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

Tori Amos

women

1,562

61,282

It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.

Jerry Stiller

sad

9,748

40,048

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Charles de Gaulle

leadership

3,159

34,452

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.

Ron Fournier

history

11,771

71,516

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

Lewis Thomas

truth