At the age of six I wantd to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Salvador DaliCorrect one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
Sam SneadThe miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
Leonard NimoyI've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
Barbra StreisandGovernment of the busy by the bossy for the bully (Capitalism)
Arthur SeldonThe Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever see that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews, Bottle openers. 'Come on, buddy, let's go. You get past me, the guy in back of me, he's got a spoon. Back off. I've got the toe clippers right here.
Jerry SeinfeldIf intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand. [Deep thoughts indeed!]
Ralph CudworthWit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.
Sir Thomas OverburyWhat you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.
Asia ArgentoDo not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard ShawLovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
Alexander ChaseThe trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
Phil KnightA doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
AesopSince your legs, Phoebus, resemble the horns of the moon, you might bathe your feet in a cornucopia
MartialThat man is the measure of all things. (In Plato Theatetus)
ProtagorasThe Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
Avery BrundageAdvice is a dangerous gift, even to the wise from the wise, and all courses may run ill.
J R R TolkienDo not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Rabindranath TagoreTen years ago I don't think the UK was mature enough to accept performance-related pay. [He could be paid £15m a year!]
Bob DiamondThe Bible tells us how to go to the heavens, not how the heavens go.
Galileo GalileiWhen a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Sacha GuitryI would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.
Jack LemmonOver there, people want to believe in you, if you can prove to them that you totally believe in you. [on Hollywood]
Will KempThe man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
B C ForbesMorality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
Roy HattersleyIf all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian.
Mahatma GandhiStyle is the image of character.
Edward GibbonAt the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.
Morgan BrittanyIt is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who at the best, knows in the end the trimph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, at least falls while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore RooseveltThere's so many intangibles about art.
Peabo BrysonI object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
Charles KetteringWayne Rooney is the golden boy of English football. Don't kill him because you will need him.
Sven Goran ErikssonIf a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Ernest HemingwayTwa gods guides me; the ane of them is blin',
Yea and a bairn brocht up in vanitie;
The next a wife ingenrit of the sea,
And lichter nor a dauphin with her fin. [Sonnet]
Mark Alexander BoydSuccess sometimes can really bite you in the shorts
Donny OsmondJustice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
William GaddisHaving a brother who is so famous and does well for club and country might seem really good but when people make comparisons all the time sometimes you just want to known for being you!
Anton FerdinandThey are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Christian Nestell BoveeHe that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own
Anna Brownell JamesonTime spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
Dean AchesonThe general atmosphere of Lord's is more like a prayer meeting than a ball game.
Alistair CookeI guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognised. If it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years.
Brady AndersonThe best thing is that I'm no longer confined to writing heavy rock songs like Mich and Keith, who seem to have run out of ideas.
Bill WymanWe peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
Juan SamaranchThe great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
D H LawrenceYou can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week. [on TV]
Adam BaldwinPolitics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.
Ronald ReaganPride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness
James Russell LowellAdmiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Bertrand RussellThere are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes
William Bennett
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