I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
Katharine Whitehorn
I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.
Sela Ward
It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
Dave Barry
Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
Gustave Courbet
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward Beecher
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
People recognize me, call me Ron, and ask me questions. It's really cool and weird as well.
Rupert Grint
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success, of any kind, as perseverance. It overcomes almost everything.
John D. Rockefeller
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
Paul Whiteman
Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
Drew Barrymore
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
Leo Tolstoy
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
Gough Whitlam
My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
Lynda Barry
Impossible things are happening every day.
Anonymous
The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea
Howard Whitman
We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.
Simon Mainwaring
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
Lao Tzu
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night.
Slash
No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors don't want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs.
David Axelrod
Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Vince Lombardi
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.
Stephen Jay Gould
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny.That made me the coolest aunt on earth.
Tina Yothers
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
Speak low, if you speak love.
William Shakespeare
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
Henri Matisse
Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
I am lucky to have advisers whom I trust.
Monica Seles
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot
If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat!
Demetri Martin
Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. Lewis
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