Best Quotes Around the World

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I’m an inventor.

I’m not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom nervous organisation and therefore psychological powers have attained an undisputed maximum, may be considered, scientifically, as a natural centre of evolution of the primates.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

Every President wants to do right.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we’ve got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.

The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

In 1949, China declared independence – an event known in Western discourse as ‚the loss of China‘ in the U.S. – with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

I think and that is all that I am.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I’m talking about myself very directly.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

I get more spam than anyone I know.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn’t care whether it was the easy thing to do politically – that’s not how he was raised – he cared that it was the right thing to do.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

I think it’s good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older – it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

I’m not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I’m not really a meat and potatoes guy.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

When I listen to a song, I don’t say, ‚Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.‘ I’m thinking, ‚That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.‘

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

My personal style is a mixture of, like, girly, throwback, like retro ’50s pin-ups, floral, like hippies, like anything feminine, and like flirty.

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.