Best Quotes Around the World

You look like a talent scout for a cemetery.

It’s always great to perform at home in the good ol‘ U.S.A.

I began playing Monopoly for real when I was 26 years old. Today, my wife and I have approximately 1,400 little green houses – each paying us monthly. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or have a Harvard degree to play Monopoly for real.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

Barbra Streisand has accomplished so much, and Dustin Hoffman as well. They are down to earth and approachable. I admire that.

I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

We are at a time in history where everyone with any insight of the climate crisis that threatens our civilisation – and the entire biosphere – must speak out in clear language, no matter how uncomfortable and unprofitable that may be.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

London is a modern Babylon.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.

What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don’t want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we’re too religious, we won’t be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

The human heart is the same the world over.

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

I think I am the greatest fighter in any class. I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I’m in my work, I don’t notice where I am.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

I’m no leader; I’m a little humble follower.

Real popular culture is folk art – coalminers‘ songs and so forth.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

I don’t write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.

I have always hated bowling, and I don’t mind admitting it.

I’m not an analyzer. I’ve got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don’t analyze people.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.