Best Quotes Around the World

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

Of two evils, choose neither.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.

I don’t have a computer. A computer’s a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

I went to a general store but they wouldn’t let me buy anything specific.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you’re gone.

The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

We’re going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.

I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I’ve always been like that; I don’t smile in any pictures.

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

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves – with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.

He 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.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

There’s been people who’ve rapped and produced – like Kanye – but I don’t feel like on the rapping side there’s ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

I have no human feelings.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

It sure is hell to be president.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.