Best Quotes Around the World

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

Computers make me totally blank out.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

I implore you to see the universe as a warm and supportive one because you’ll look for evidence to support this view. When you anticipate that the universe is friendly, you see friendly people. You look for circumstances to work in your favor. You anticipate good fortune flowing into your life.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

I don’t think there’s such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

I like a colorful sock. I’m a sock man.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

We didn’t become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn’t come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn’t do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

Never complain and never explain.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.

I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

By curious accident of history and geography, the world’s major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They’re a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

People like to talk about war.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

I’ve taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a more open mind than most people.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

I’m an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

I have a very eclectic iPod. So I’ve got my cardio people – so it’s anything from Beyonce to some Jay-Z to Janelle Monae, her song ‚Tightrope,‘ that’s a good cardio song. And then I’ve got Sting. I’ve got Mary J. Blige. I’ve got The Beatles. I’ve got Michael Jackson. I try to pick the songs that I personally love.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!