Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
Hermann HesseOmnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.
Alan WattsFor a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.
Bill GatesI can operate in half-a-song format.
Frank Ocean‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.
The WeekndYou make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.
Clint EastwoodFactoring in millions of people when I’m writing a song is not a good idea. I don’t ever do it.
Taylor SwiftI cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Winston ChurchillIgnorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFacts are stubborn things.
Ronald ReaganIn many ways, I’ve been writing personal stories all my life.
Alice MunroI was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.
J. ColeBeing a hybrid maker off and on over the years, I’m very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself.
David BowieReality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John LennonWriting for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.
Bruno MarsIt is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‚I could have thought of that‘ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
Douglas AdamsAny reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
James MadisonThe good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
Ernest HemingwayImagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
Albert EinsteinSometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it.
John KennedyTo know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
John RuskinA happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard ShawI don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.
Paul AusterI need physics more than friends.
J. Robert OppenheimerI get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.
Nipsey HussleI can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.
Abby Lee MillerChildren need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.
Colin PowellI love to watch videos, and I’ve always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.
Billie EilishWhat we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard ShawI made all my generals out of mud.
Napoleon BonaparteWhy, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?
Kanye WestAnd you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.
Jimmy BuffettA man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.
Marilyn MonroeWe all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.
Bill GatesBooks are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
ChanakyaI don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.
Jim CarreyEducation is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
AristotleHe had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Isaac AsimovBasically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
Albert CamusThere is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
George WashingtonI never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.
Alice WalkerI think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don’t think they’re doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.
Douglas AdamsAll that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas CarlyleHarvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.
Woody AllenYoung men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.
Russell M. NelsonWe are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI say there is no darkness but ignorance.
William ShakespeareWriting is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamThe debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Carl JungPilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
Neil ArmstrongWhen people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.
Mark ZuckerbergThe true university of these days is a collection of books.
Thomas CarlyleThe difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
Arthur SchopenhauerInformation is not knowledge.
Albert EinsteinI went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.
Bill GatesYou do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.
Warren BuffettI have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.
Terry PratchettThe most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
PlatoNever have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.
Fidel CastroEvery movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.
Clint Eastwood