War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George OrwellMusic is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
PlatoWhen words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
William ShakespeareI just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘
DrakeLet freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Nelson MandelaFind a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin – find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.
Maya AngelouWhen I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.
Kendrick LamarDuring my school days, I was doing a play, and my costume fell on the stage. I really wish it didn’t happen.
Virat KohliAll great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard ShawAmbition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund BurkeI am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
Jean-Paul SartreMy mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
Alice WalkerBhai was my hero and he had immense influence on me.
Sunil ChhetriStand a little less between me and the sun.
DiogenesThere are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.
Nelson MandelaBefore ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.
Dwayne JohnsonI shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhat makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
George EliotCritics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.
Robert KiyosakiYour body has space within you that cannot die.
Wayne DyerAfrica is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.
Matthew McConaugheySee, behind all my tough, rough exterior is basically a marshmallow, maybe a pussycat. But not a wimp!
Mr. TThe only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. RooseveltLabor gives birth to ideas.
Jim RohnNothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
John RuskinI am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.
Henry FordThe world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
ChanakyaThe men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.
Dwayne JohnsonThe earth’s crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaLife can be boring unless you put some effort into it.
John C. MaxwellWhen we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans – an avian flu pandemic.
Barack ObamaThe method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Leonardo da VinciLife loves the liver of it.
Maya AngelouMy kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.
Brian EnoThe perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David ThoreauEverybody’s got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.
AuroraI defy gravity.
Marilyn MonroeYou have to dream before your dreams can come true.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamWhat would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van GoghI’m constantly trying to find new ways to get my hair out of my face.
AuroraNature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Arthur SchopenhauerStorms make trees take deeper roots.
Dolly PartonWithout art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard ShawThe artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
John C. MaxwellKnowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CummingsThe writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I’m just like, ‚Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do‘.
EminemWriting is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.
C. S. LewisMen do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
Fidel CastroI have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
Tennessee WilliamsWhen I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mahatma GandhiI believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.
Stephen CoveyTrees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
John MuirI have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
Leonardo da VinciIf a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.
Bad BunnyMan and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.
Leonardo da VinciWe are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
Charles BukowskiDelicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot