I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

E. O. Wilson

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

George Bernard Shaw

I had this temp receptionist job in New York, and I kind of hated it, and in the morning I would come out of the subway and just walk along the New York streets with all these people around me and kind of sing to myself. Like, 'She's gonna make it!'

Elizabeth Meriwether

Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.

Ellie Goulding

With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase

Abraham Lincoln

You'll hate me for the truth before you love me for a lie ... and I wouldn't want it any other way.

Evette Carter

Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.

Oriana Fallaci

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Cato The Elder

I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.

Plato

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

Calvin Coolidge