c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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1,182	27,600	The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.	Joshua Foer	future
10,428	52,105	There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.	Jane Smiley	nature
3,511	20,039	I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.	Jodi Picoult	family
10,411	20,264	The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.	Desmond Tutu	family
1,708	23,509	If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.	Bobby Flay	food
6,864	63,393	We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.	Tony Benn	society
8,781	4,034	What is art? Nature concentrated.	Honore de Balzac	art
4,472	45,419	It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	men
3,957	63,998	There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'	Arthur Ashe	sports
1,204	34,428	Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.	Auguste Rodin	history
2,504	70,510	Deep Throat is a guy who could have your files and mine in his trust.	Chuck Colson	trust
9,127	41,547	It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.	Carol Burnett	legal
1,250	6,510	Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.	Ambrose Bierce	best
871	11,770	As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.	Andre Norton	courage
3,207	49,091	To know oneself, one should assert oneself.	Albert Camus	motivational
6,017	60,069	If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.	Frank Langella	respect
1,413	59,395	I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.	Tom Perrotta	religion
11,312	58,460	I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.	Arthur C. Clarke	religion
1,092	38,286	Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.	Janis Joplin	intelligence
2,392	31,127	There are two powers in the world one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.	Muhammad Ali Jinnah	great
7,608	17,821	And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.	Jason Statham	experience
3,355	67,773	The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.	Eric Allman	technology
1,323	73,726	Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.	Bertrand Russell	women
8,678	9,726	Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.	James Cash Penney	change
3,814	67,723	In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.	James Gunn	technology
8,437	57,054	Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.	Louis C. K.	power
10,409	73,575	We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.	Lisa Bonet	women
11,591	63,802	The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.	Hank Aaron	sports
7,478	72,149	It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.	Vladimir Nabokov	war
10,840	9,193	No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.	Steve Jobs	change
7,885	4,956	The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.	Major Owens	attitude
6,499	48,550	The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them.	Sarah Michelle Gellar	morning
8,410	41,334	We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.	Lloyd Alexander	learning
3,445	56,194	What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.	Jay Alan Sekulow	positive
2,843	49,516	I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005, 2006, 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak.	Harvey Weinstein	movies
204	20,771	I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.	Anna Paquin	family
5,164	2,672	The lips on my upper right bicep are my girlfriend's lips. She has the most amazing lips, and I wanted to carry them around with me everywhere I go, considering I can't carry her lips physically with me. So I decided to place them in a discreet location, such as the inside part of my bicep.	Jake Owen	amazing
9,936	43,150	It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.	Confucius	love
4,611	31,602	I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.	Donald Trump	great
6,372	14,654	But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.	John Anderson	design
808	9,647	Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.	David Wilkerson	change
1,564	71,520	I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.	Ron Wyden	truth
9,916	14,015	We march and fight, to death or on to victory. Our might is right, no traitors shall prevail. Our hearts are steeled against the fiery gates of hell. No shot or shell, can still our mighty song.	George Lincoln Rockwell	death
8,208	4,220	Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.	Claude Monet	art
8,029	15,698	I don't remember my dreams. I'm one of those weird people. I know there are tricks and things you can do, but I never remember my dreams.	Jayma Mays	dreams
4,431	41,955	Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.	George Bernard Shaw	life
10,977	71,169	In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.	Leonard Cohen	truth
3,579	17,954	Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.	Danny Boyle	experience
5,102	74,303	I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.	Francesca Annis	women
1,391	68,371	Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.	Lord Chesterfield	time
8,593	20,124	When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.	John Cheever	family
2,411	39,804	When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.	Marvin Minsky	knowledge
8,763	26,283	Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.	Lee Trevino	funny
3,186	67,979	I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career.	Nolan Ryan	thankful
11,125	7,395	The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.	Blaine Lee	business
3,192	70,579	Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.	Arthur Conan Doyle	truth
3,882	29,384	Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.	Neil Kurshan	good
6,576	64,872	Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.	Sid Waddell	strength
11,816	30,067	We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.	Colin Powell	government
1,444	20,622	They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.	Francis Ford Coppola	family
6,146	59,674	I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?	Shailene Woodley	respect
6,308	14,832	My nutritionist has done a great job in changing my diet after we established I am allergic to things like gluten - I can't eat pizza, pasta and bread. I have lost some weight, but my movement is sharper and I feel great.	Novak Djokovic	diet
9,217	59,345	Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.	John Desmond Bernal	religion
3,540	70,183	A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.	Armstrong Williams	trust
11,048	22,748	The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.	Mark Cuban	finance
798	36,845	Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.	Christopher Morley	humor
4,254	323	We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.	Robert Mugabe	age
4,199	24,291	The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.	John F. Kennedy	freedom
2,256	48,536	There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.	Andrew Wiles	morning
9,811	41,002	I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.	Geddy Lee	learning
8,274	72,575	All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.	Liz Smith	wedding
8,765	4,183	An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.	Paul Cezanne	art
2,541	53,321	The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.	Benazir Bhutto	peace
9,962	36,403	We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.	William Hague	hope
4,746	69,001	Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.	Marian Wright Edelman	time
6,400	69,858	Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.	Peter Drucker	trust
10,848	57,612	The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.	Olivia Wilde	relationship
7,699	33,340	I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.	Gary Bauer	health
5,612	41,727	Let's create a legal system that can work.	Sam Brownback	legal
818	4,437	I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.	Stephen Fry	art
4,607	51,390	It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.	P. D. James	nature
11,482	48,358	Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.	Glenn Beck	morning
9,277	60,739	Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack.	Timothy Olyphant	romantic
10,076	27,330	I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues.	Dave Eggers	future
2,163	28,690	We must return to nature and nature's god.	Luther Burbank	god
5,257	21,968	I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.	Nikos Kazantzakis	fear
10,373	62,977	The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.	Alexis de Tocqueville	society
4,668	13,461	Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.	Ernest Hemingway	death
2,003	50,751	I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.	Ellie Goulding	music
688	53,982	We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.	John Fowles	poetry
8,236	3,531	We all love musical architecture there's no doubt about that.	Levon Helm	architecture
653	40,793	It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?	David Byrne	learning
3,953	5,043	So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.	Thom Mayne	attitude
2,776	18,240	There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.	Robert Carlyle	experience
8,531	9,473	Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.	Alfred Lord Tennyson	change
7,696	1,440	The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.	Ibrahim Babangida	alone
2,778	67,423	We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.	Kevin Richardson	technology
2,119	33,800	The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.	T-Bone Burnett	health
4,136	9,584	I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.	Shirley Manson	change
993	29,300	Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.	Robert Louis Stevenson	good

1,182

27,600

The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.

Joshua Foer

future

10,428

52,105

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

Jane Smiley

nature

3,511

20,039

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

Jodi Picoult

family

10,411

20,264

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

Desmond Tutu

family

1,708

23,509

If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.

Bobby Flay

food

6,864

63,393

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Tony Benn

society

8,781

4,034

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Honore de Balzac

art

4,472

45,419

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

men

3,957

63,998

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

Arthur Ashe

sports

1,204

34,428

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.

Auguste Rodin

history

2,504

70,510

Deep Throat is a guy who could have your files and mine in his trust.

Chuck Colson

trust

9,127

41,547

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

Carol Burnett

legal

1,250

6,510

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Ambrose Bierce

best

871

11,770

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Andre Norton

courage

3,207

49,091

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Albert Camus

motivational

6,017

60,069

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

Frank Langella

respect

1,413

59,395

I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.

Tom Perrotta

religion

11,312

58,460

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

Arthur C. Clarke

religion

1,092

38,286

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Janis Joplin

intelligence

2,392

31,127

There are two powers in the world one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

great

7,608

17,821

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

Jason Statham

experience

3,355

67,773

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

Eric Allman

technology

1,323

73,726

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

Bertrand Russell

women

8,678

9,726

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

James Cash Penney

change

3,814

67,723

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.

James Gunn

technology

8,437

57,054

Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.

Louis C. K.

power

10,409

73,575

We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.

Lisa Bonet

women

11,591

63,802

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

Hank Aaron

sports

7,478

72,149

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

Vladimir Nabokov

war

10,840

9,193

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

change

7,885

4,956

The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.

Major Owens

attitude

6,499

48,550

The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

morning

8,410

41,334

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Lloyd Alexander

learning

3,445

56,194

What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.

Jay Alan Sekulow

positive

2,843

49,516

I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005, 2006, 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak.

Harvey Weinstein

movies

204

20,771

I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.

Anna Paquin

family

5,164

2,672

The lips on my upper right bicep are my girlfriend's lips. She has the most amazing lips, and I wanted to carry them around with me everywhere I go, considering I can't carry her lips physically with me. So I decided to place them in a discreet location, such as the inside part of my bicep.

Jake Owen

amazing

9,936

43,150

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.

Confucius

love

4,611

31,602

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

Donald Trump

great

6,372

14,654

But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.

John Anderson

design

808

9,647

Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

David Wilkerson

change

1,564

71,520

I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.

Ron Wyden

truth

9,916

14,015

We march and fight, to death or on to victory. Our might is right, no traitors shall prevail. Our hearts are steeled against the fiery gates of hell. No shot or shell, can still our mighty song.

George Lincoln Rockwell

death

8,208

4,220

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Claude Monet

art

8,029

15,698

I don't remember my dreams. I'm one of those weird people. I know there are tricks and things you can do, but I never remember my dreams.

Jayma Mays

dreams

4,431

41,955

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

George Bernard Shaw

life

10,977

71,169

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

Leonard Cohen

truth

3,579

17,954

Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

Danny Boyle

experience

5,102

74,303

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.

Francesca Annis

women

1,391

68,371

Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Lord Chesterfield

time

8,593

20,124

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

John Cheever

family

2,411

39,804

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

Marvin Minsky

knowledge

8,763

26,283

Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.

Lee Trevino

funny

3,186

67,979

I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career.

Nolan Ryan

thankful

11,125

7,395

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

Blaine Lee

business

3,192

70,579

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

truth

3,882

29,384

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

Neil Kurshan

good

6,576

64,872

Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.

Sid Waddell

strength

11,816

30,067

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

Colin Powell

government

1,444

20,622

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

Francis Ford Coppola

family

6,146

59,674

I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?

Shailene Woodley

respect

6,308

14,832

My nutritionist has done a great job in changing my diet after we established I am allergic to things like gluten - I can't eat pizza, pasta and bread. I have lost some weight, but my movement is sharper and I feel great.

Novak Djokovic

diet

9,217

59,345

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.

John Desmond Bernal

religion

3,540

70,183

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

Armstrong Williams

trust

11,048

22,748

The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.

Mark Cuban

finance

798

36,845

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Christopher Morley

humor

4,254

323

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

Robert Mugabe

age

4,199

24,291

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

John F. Kennedy

freedom

2,256

48,536

There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.

Andrew Wiles

morning

9,811

41,002

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

Geddy Lee

learning

8,274

72,575

All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.

Liz Smith

wedding

8,765

4,183

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

Paul Cezanne

art

2,541

53,321

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

Benazir Bhutto

peace

9,962

36,403

We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.

William Hague

hope

4,746

69,001

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Marian Wright Edelman

time

6,400

69,858

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.

Peter Drucker

trust

10,848

57,612

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.

Olivia Wilde

relationship

7,699

33,340

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.

Gary Bauer

health

5,612

41,727

Let's create a legal system that can work.

Sam Brownback

legal

818

4,437

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Stephen Fry

art

4,607

51,390

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

P. D. James

nature

11,482

48,358

Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.

Glenn Beck

morning

9,277

60,739

Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack.

Timothy Olyphant

romantic

10,076

27,330

I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues.

Dave Eggers

future

2,163

28,690

We must return to nature and nature's god.

Luther Burbank

god

5,257

21,968

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

Nikos Kazantzakis

fear

10,373

62,977

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

Alexis de Tocqueville

society

4,668

13,461

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Ernest Hemingway

death

2,003

50,751

I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.

Ellie Goulding

music

688

53,982

We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

John Fowles

poetry

8,236

3,531

We all love musical architecture there's no doubt about that.

Levon Helm

architecture

653

40,793

It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?

David Byrne

learning

3,953

5,043

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.

Thom Mayne

attitude

2,776

18,240

There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.

Robert Carlyle

experience

8,531

9,473

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

change

7,696

1,440

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

Ibrahim Babangida

alone

2,778

67,423

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

Kevin Richardson

technology

2,119

33,800

The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

T-Bone Burnett

health

4,136

9,584

I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

Shirley Manson

change

993

29,300

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

Robert Louis Stevenson

good