c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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8,898	55,979	African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.	Mos Def	positive
2,184	11,326	What we do every night is we change out the set list as much as we can to make sure that (fans can) go home and tell their friends they experienced something unique and cool.	Isaac Hanson	cool
9,952	7,366	Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.	Walter Scott	business
8,007	6,374	For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.	Ernest Hemingway	best
10,223	19,993	Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.	George Seaton	faith
8,881	43,223	Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.	Mother Teresa	love
6,441	59,000	I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.	Damien Hirst	religion
8,609	9,259	Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.	Niccolo Machiavelli	change
1,025	71,270	Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.	Bryant H. McGill	truth
4,750	3,928	Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.	Pablo Picasso	art
3,821	54,901	Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.	Ralph Nader	politics
5,371	61,515	Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.	Pope John Paul II	science
6,813	12,209	You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.	Mitt Romney	dad
779	44,812	And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.	Damon Wayans	marriage
1,788	6,234	To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.	Margaret Thatcher	best
10,422	44,629	I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.	Michele Bachmann	marriage
9,203	16,143	Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.	Will Durant	education
9,847	34,728	Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.	Joe Barton	history
1,940	74,967	Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.	John Ruskin	work
1,333	68,157	In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.	Albert Schweitzer	time
9,938	30,332	I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.	David Cameron	government
8,605	22,691	I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don't live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it.	Criss Angel	fear
7,152	18,362	The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.	Paramahansa Yogananda	failure
4,909	47,991	I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.	Gary Vaynerchuk	money
5,688	48,984	The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.	Tara Lipinski	morning
2,479	8,895	When I'm in the car sometimes it's like, 'Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.' You know what I mean? I don't want to listen to Tom Waits.	Max Greenfield	car
9,639	64,169	I never thought I'd make the pages of 'Sports Illustrated,' because I've always been skinny.	Carolyn Murphy	sports
10,925	69,235	Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.	Lewis Mumford	travel
10,065	28,324	As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.	Stockwell Day	god
134	65,735	Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.	Herschel Walker	success
2,548	609	America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.	Meryl Streep	age
8,894	24,497	The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.	George W. Bush	freedom
9,537	610	I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.	Evel Knievel	age
9,293	62,389	The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.	John Desmond Bernal	science
7,191	69,061	You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.	Jennifer Lopez	time
1,192	28,849	Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.	Dalai Lama	good
4,031	71,425	I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it.	Luke Scott	truth
4,773	57,351	Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.	Wole Soyinka	power
1,209	46,745	My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.	Loni Anderson	mom
2,379	25,728	Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.	Bill Cosby	funny
10,144	41,610	We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.	Michael Bloomberg	legal
1,810	30,096	Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.	James Russell Lowell	government
2,870	36,643	The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.	Dario Argento	hope
2,021	66,884	Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.	Will Hermes	teacher
11,264	26,831	Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.	Mitt Romney	future
5,918	42,912	All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.	Andre Breton	love
7,443	34,203	Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.	Christopher Hitchens	history
10,473	26,056	You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.	Ken Kesey	funny
5,309	11,018	I'm way better in person than I am on things like Twitter. I know Twitter is the best and fastest way to connect with fans who really appreciate you but I'm still not cool with it - although I am trying! I try my best but I'm a one-on-one person and I don't want to tell people I'm on the toilet or I just brushed my teeth.	Nicole Scherzinger	cool
614	60,893	The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.	Bob Marley	sad
6,995	27,255	In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.	Jonathan Sacks	future
2,335	45,625	Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.	Niccolo Machiavelli	men
6,363	18,270	We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.	Helmut Jahn	experience
8,602	37,954	I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.	Fay Godwin	imagination
4,817	18,878	I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.	Malcolm Mclaren	failure
482	36,142	The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.	Anne Lamott	hope
4,479	9,042	I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush.	Graham Hill	car
7,369	47,995	There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.	Quentin Crisp	money
2,491	65,412	You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.	Johnny Depp	success
9,280	42,384	Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.	Michael Jordan	life
3,965	24,863	I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.	Miuccia Prada	freedom
3,603	60,406	Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.	Emily Dickinson	romantic
3,899	11,009	Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.	Mel Gibson	cool
7,894	11,458	Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.	William Henry Hudson	cool
7,824	37,507	Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.	John Adams	imagination
2,399	38,150	A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.	James Allen	inspirational
9,388	65,114	I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.	Dudley Moore	strength
10,755	57,185	He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.	Joseph Conrad	power
2,670	63,854	Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.	Harry Vardon	sports
4,239	2,518	The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.	John Dyer	amazing
4,621	107	Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair.	Ira Gershwin	age
7,456	4,043	We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.	Salvador Dali	art
7,019	70,556	Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.	Swami Vivekananda	truth
9,826	23,524	I try to eat in a way that makes me feel good. If that means a little bite of chocolate I do that, but I try not to use food as a reward for myself.	Jennifer Garner	food
2,097	29,494	I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.	Allen West	good
9,055	50,633	For me the visual is just as important as the music.	Christina Aguilera	music
2,387	61,856	I don't think there's a date minimum or maximum. I don't get the whole 'All right, you've got to wait three days to call after the date.' If I got a number from a girl, I'd call that night. There's no science to it for me. You just do what it is that you feel like doing.	Channing Tatum	science
7,294	8,458	The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.	Ben Sweetland	car
1,728	17,011	Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.	Gaylord Nelson	environmental
6,003	63,675	There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.	Kofi Annan	society
6,662	44,269	Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?	Dennis Miller	marriage
977	40,720	You aren't learning anything when you're talking.	Lyndon B. Johnson	learning
2,871	63,927	The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.	Billie Joe Armstrong	sports
6,394	45,799	Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.	Susan B. Anthony	men
6,838	20,486	A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.	Chris Christie	family
7,378	16,458	I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.	Loni Anderson	education
11,245	66,559	My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.	Cat Cora	teacher
1,866	13,438	For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.	Albert Camus	death
3,448	29,167	A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.	Henry Ford	good
2,477	8	Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.	Eleanor Roosevelt	age
10,879	55,290	Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.	Henry Adams	politics
3,575	51,226	To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.	Helen Keller	nature
3,631	9,789	All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.	Cate Blanchett	change
10,385	204	People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.	Helen Hayes	age
3,430	6,398	Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.	Henry Ward Beecher	best
7,884	30,001	Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.	Hillary Clinton	government
1,750	30,612	We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but we're feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, I'd rather feed them better food.	Tom Colicchio	government
2,179	12,022	But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.	Robert Peel	courage
6,977	24,988	None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did.	Dan Stevens	freedom
7,973	47,097	You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.	Adam Oates	mom

8,898

55,979

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.

Mos Def

positive

2,184

11,326

What we do every night is we change out the set list as much as we can to make sure that (fans can) go home and tell their friends they experienced something unique and cool.

Isaac Hanson

cool

9,952

7,366

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Walter Scott

business

8,007

6,374

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

Ernest Hemingway

best

10,223

19,993

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

George Seaton

faith

8,881

43,223

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

love

6,441

59,000

I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.

Damien Hirst

religion

8,609

9,259

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Niccolo Machiavelli

change

1,025

71,270

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

Bryant H. McGill

truth

4,750

3,928

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Pablo Picasso

art

3,821

54,901

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

Ralph Nader

politics

5,371

61,515

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

Pope John Paul II

science

6,813

12,209

You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.

Mitt Romney

dad

779

44,812

And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.

Damon Wayans

marriage

1,788

6,234

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Margaret Thatcher

best

10,422

44,629

I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.

Michele Bachmann

marriage

9,203

16,143

Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

education

9,847

34,728

Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.

Joe Barton

history

1,940

74,967

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

John Ruskin

work

1,333

68,157

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

Albert Schweitzer

time

9,938

30,332

I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.

David Cameron

government

8,605

22,691

I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don't live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it.

Criss Angel

fear

7,152

18,362

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Paramahansa Yogananda

failure

4,909

47,991

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.

Gary Vaynerchuk

money

5,688

48,984

The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.

Tara Lipinski

morning

2,479

8,895

When I'm in the car sometimes it's like, 'Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.' You know what I mean? I don't want to listen to Tom Waits.

Max Greenfield

car

9,639

64,169

I never thought I'd make the pages of 'Sports Illustrated,' because I've always been skinny.

Carolyn Murphy

sports

10,925

69,235

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

Lewis Mumford

travel

10,065

28,324

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

Stockwell Day

god

134

65,735

Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.

Herschel Walker

success

2,548

609

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

Meryl Streep

age

8,894

24,497

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

George W. Bush

freedom

9,537

610

I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.

Evel Knievel

age

9,293

62,389

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.

John Desmond Bernal

science

7,191

69,061

You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.

Jennifer Lopez

time

1,192

28,849

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

Dalai Lama

good

4,031

71,425

I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it.

Luke Scott

truth

4,773

57,351

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

Wole Soyinka

power

1,209

46,745

My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

Loni Anderson

mom

2,379

25,728

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

Bill Cosby

funny

10,144

41,610

We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.

Michael Bloomberg

legal

1,810

30,096

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

James Russell Lowell

government

2,870

36,643

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

Dario Argento

hope

2,021

66,884

Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.

Will Hermes

teacher

11,264

26,831

Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.

Mitt Romney

future

5,918

42,912

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Andre Breton

love

7,443

34,203

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Christopher Hitchens

history

10,473

26,056

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

Ken Kesey

funny

5,309

11,018

I'm way better in person than I am on things like Twitter. I know Twitter is the best and fastest way to connect with fans who really appreciate you but I'm still not cool with it - although I am trying! I try my best but I'm a one-on-one person and I don't want to tell people I'm on the toilet or I just brushed my teeth.

Nicole Scherzinger

cool

614

60,893

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Bob Marley

sad

6,995

27,255

In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.

Jonathan Sacks

future

2,335

45,625

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Niccolo Machiavelli

men

6,363

18,270

We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.

Helmut Jahn

experience

8,602

37,954

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

Fay Godwin

imagination

4,817

18,878

I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

Malcolm Mclaren

failure

482

36,142

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

Anne Lamott

hope

4,479

9,042

I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush.

Graham Hill

car

7,369

47,995

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

Quentin Crisp

money

2,491

65,412

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.

Johnny Depp

success

9,280

42,384

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.

Michael Jordan

life

3,965

24,863

I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.

Miuccia Prada

freedom

3,603

60,406

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Emily Dickinson

romantic

3,899

11,009

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.

Mel Gibson

cool

7,894

11,458

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

William Henry Hudson

cool

7,824

37,507

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

John Adams

imagination

2,399

38,150

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

James Allen

inspirational

9,388

65,114

I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.

Dudley Moore

strength

10,755

57,185

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

Joseph Conrad

power

2,670

63,854

Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

Harry Vardon

sports

4,239

2,518

The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.

John Dyer

amazing

4,621

107

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair.

Ira Gershwin

age

7,456

4,043

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

Salvador Dali

art

7,019

70,556

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Swami Vivekananda

truth

9,826

23,524

I try to eat in a way that makes me feel good. If that means a little bite of chocolate I do that, but I try not to use food as a reward for myself.

Jennifer Garner

food

2,097

29,494

I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.

Allen West

good

9,055

50,633

For me the visual is just as important as the music.

Christina Aguilera

music

2,387

61,856

I don't think there's a date minimum or maximum. I don't get the whole 'All right, you've got to wait three days to call after the date.' If I got a number from a girl, I'd call that night. There's no science to it for me. You just do what it is that you feel like doing.

Channing Tatum

science

7,294

8,458

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.

Ben Sweetland

car

1,728

17,011

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.

Gaylord Nelson

environmental

6,003

63,675

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

Kofi Annan

society

6,662

44,269

Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?

Dennis Miller

marriage

977

40,720

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Lyndon B. Johnson

learning

2,871

63,927

The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

Billie Joe Armstrong

sports

6,394

45,799

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Susan B. Anthony

men

6,838

20,486

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

Chris Christie

family

7,378

16,458

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

Loni Anderson

education

11,245

66,559

My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.

Cat Cora

teacher

1,866

13,438

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Albert Camus

death

3,448

29,167

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

Henry Ford

good

2,477

8

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Eleanor Roosevelt

age

10,879

55,290

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Adams

politics

3,575

51,226

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Helen Keller

nature

3,631

9,789

All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.

Cate Blanchett

change

10,385

204

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

Helen Hayes

age

3,430

6,398

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

best

7,884

30,001

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

Hillary Clinton

government

1,750

30,612

We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but we're feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, I'd rather feed them better food.

Tom Colicchio

government

2,179

12,022

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

Robert Peel

courage

6,977

24,988

None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did.

Dan Stevens

freedom

7,973

47,097

You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.

Adam Oates

mom