I'm glad we've been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face.
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking
Albert Einstein
My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...''He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I was his occasional research assistant.
Neil Gaiman
This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father.
Bruno Schulz
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
Judith Rodriguez
I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.
Jennifer Lopez
If I were you, I'd sue my face for slander.
Terry Pratchett
It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved.
Samuel Smiles
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
It's simple; be YOU. If you're not being you, you're being someone else. YOU are not here to be someone else.
Steve Maraboli
I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards.
Donna Rice
The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
there is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up?
Cassandra Clare
Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.
Michael Rapaport
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
H. P. Lovecraft
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Sydney Smiles
Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance
J.K. Rowling
To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.
Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
Alexander Smith
If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.
Emma Bunton
We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.
A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building; I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander.
I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust.
Douglas Wood
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
That's what survival means, for me. I thought it was a matter of staying alive, but it isn't. Nobody lives forever anyway. It's how you're remembered. It's what your children thought of you, what they think of you after you're dead. That's survival.
Orson Scott Card
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
Everything is sweetened by risk.
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.
Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!
Sylvia Kristel
Keep not your roses for my dead, cold brow the way is lonely, let me feel them now.
Arabella Smith
The faster you go, the shorter you are.
Aim for your star, no matter how far, you must reach high above and touch your life with love, you must never look back, but charge on! Attack! See your goal your star of desire, see it red hot, feel it burning, you must be obsessed with it to make it your true yearning, be ready my friends for when you truly believe it, you will certainly achieve it and by all of God?s universal laws you will always receive it!
Bob Smith
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