It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry.

I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

First, I prepare. Then I have faith.

Joe Namath

My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.

Vincent Gallo

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Orison Swett Marden

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Curtis Carlson

The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind. What reward did they receive from our culture and its intellectuals? The position of a hated, persecuted minority. The position of a scapegoat for the evils of the bureaucrats.

Ayn Rand

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

Taylor Swift

Like madness is the glory of life.

William Shakespeare

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

Dean Inge

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper

Aristotle

I don't live to work; I work to live.

Noel Gallagher