Best Quotes Around the World

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

Female psychotic bosses can be particularly devilish. They will tend to mix in a lot of passive aggression, making you feel guilty for all kinds of things.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

I’ve taken so many kids out of Pittsburgh and onto the great white way in New York City right into a Broadway show.

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

Sometimes I’d like to play the bad guy and sometimes I’d like to die in a movie.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

Time is money.

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator… these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.

SNL is a home. You’ve got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it’s a great time.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

I want at least five kids. I want twins.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.