Best Quotes Around the World

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

The Information Highway intrigues me because I have always been a newshound; I have always been curious about why people believe what they believe.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you’ve ever talked to that dude, he’s the sweetest guy in the world – he’s just a trip.

All of my songs are autobiographical.

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It’s fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it’s very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous – that is to say, it’s obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.

In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it was big time.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev’s willingness to accept Kennedy’s hegemonic demands.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

It’s easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.