Best Quotes Around the World

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It’s all authentic.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.

Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.

My advice is this. For Christ’s sake, don’t write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

The reason we wouldn’t make a seven-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit a price point, it’s because we don’t think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

I’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

My shopping habits… I am not very brand-conscious about clothes. I buy whatever looks good on me. Likewise, I don’t just shop only in malls or high-end stores.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

If you judge, investigate.

We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

I think we need more idiot control.

What you see, but can’t see over is as good as infinite.

They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.

I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

I won’t do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can’t, it’s not gonna make the team.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

The only thing I’m afraid of is bees. I don’t like bees. I’m allergic to them.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.

There are good players, there are great players, and there are those few at the pinnacle – the Peles, Cruyffs and Maradonas.

When I was four, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

You have no ability, if you’re a financial institution and you’re threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

Smiles are the language of love.