Best Quotes Around the World

My brother had written ‚Ocean Eyes,‘ and we recorded it, basing all of the production around contemporary and lyrical dance. I think of most songs that way – if you can’t dance to a song, it’s not a song.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

Character is power.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.

We can’t have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That’s crazy. You can’t have more types of fake news than real news. That’s allowing public deception to go unchecked. That’s crazy.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don’t know what a child actor is. She’s an actor who’s a child.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

The future of advertising is the Internet.

I noticed that when I touched the ball on the field, you could hear this shrill noise in the crowd with all the birds screaming like at a Beatles concert.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

Only the public can make a star. It’s the studios who try to make a system out of it.

There are good examples of companies – Coca-Cola is one – that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.

When I was little… I didn’t relate to princesses. I saw Maleficent, and I just thought she was so – she was so elegant.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

In 1975, when my students were kidnapped by rebels, I was accused of hiding instead of trying to save them, and of not giving enough money for their ransom. I wasn’t believed.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That’s over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it’s going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Writing bores me so.

I bought some batteries, but they weren’t included.

I think any activity you have your kids in, you’re all trying to live vicariously through them. And you’re jealous of the kid that’s naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.