Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.

No. It is said that the Nephilim are the children of men and angels. All that this angelic heritage has given to us is a longer distance to fall.

Cassandra Clare

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

Janet Suzman

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

Erica Jong

Just because they're a story doesn't mean they're not real.

Heather Bouwman

The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China.

John Bruton

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

Carl Jung

I truly don't know why the boys are getting all the votes - it could be because they are really amazing, and that's all there is to it. They're really, really good and every single boy deserves to be in the competition right now, and so do the two girls.

Pia Toscano

The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless.

Hung Ko

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.

Thomas Frank

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

Larry Bird

I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.

Kamisese Mara

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

Denis Diderot