There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service

Steve Jobs

The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.

Anais Nin

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see.

Shaquille O'Neal

I really am pretty happy with what God gave me.

Jennifer Aniston

Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.

Dee Dee Myers

Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right?

Rachel Stevens

Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.

Nikolaus Lenus

If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.

Gregory Nunn

Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.

Harlan Coben

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Yves SaintLaurent

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

Abraham Lincoln

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Johann von Goethe