c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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6,048	75,541	I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.	Jonathan Kozol	christmas
6,459	67,528	My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.	K. Eric Drexler	technology
10,974	71,889	To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.	George Santayana	war
8,597	62,462	A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.	Thomas Chandler Haliburton	smile
9,891	43,307	Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.	William Arthur Ward	love
1,549	59,004	In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.	Carol P. Christ	religion
9,232	14,962	I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.	Neal Barnard	diet
2,858	32,460	How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?	Dan Savage	happiness
9,697	61,224	When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.	Tom Glazer	sad
988	15,682	Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'	Sue Monk Kidd	dreams
9,427	66,373	A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.	Brad Henry	teacher
8,358	3,924	Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.	Laurence J. Peter	art
984	73,572	A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.	Minna Antrim	women
6,494	50,857	Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.	Maynard James Keenan	music
2,045	54,728	The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.	Robert Penn Warren	poetry
3,614	69,099	Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.	Benjamin Disraeli	travel
1,710	58,836	There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.	Jesse Ventura	religion
6,505	52,056	The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.	Auguste Rodin	nature
5,410	59,660	I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.	Eva Longoria	respect
7,932	25,142	Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.	Natan Sharansky	freedom
2,088	47,937	If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.	Ang Lee	money
4,382	70,369	You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.	Ali Smith	trust
8,730	18,563	Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.	Camille Paglia	failure
2,153	12,480	My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.	Jeb Bush	dad
8,937	50,932	I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.	Dick Dale	music
10,204	47,505	He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.	Jose Marti	money
6,306	75,026	I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.	James Dean	work
6,489	31,008	Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.	Mae West	great
8,832	40,605	A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.	Dan Rather	learning
10,839	44,482	My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.	Mercedes McCambridge	marriage
916	35,491	When I was 14, I felt very rundown I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.	Gus Van Sant	home
2,376	75,267	I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back.	Lady Gaga	work
6,233	43,444	My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.	Kelly Clarkson	love
8,166	52,212	Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.	Ron Taffel	parenting
148	48,739	What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that.	William Scranton	morning
2,107	15,044	I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.	Zhuangzi	dreams
1,239	4,571	The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.	Walter Benjamin	art
6,708	8,225	Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.	Gwyneth Paltrow	business
10,229	56,122	When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.	Paul Cellucci	positive
7,910	44,702	Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.	Masaharu Morimoto	marriage
8,062	11,099	I get really cool gifts, and I know this sounds really lame, but I think one of the best gifts I've ever received was the Easy Bake Oven when I was younger. When I was little, I loved to bake! I want to get one now so I can make weird mini desserts for people.	Ashley Benson	cool
5,683	53,892	Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want.	Connie Stevens	pet
4,384	45,456	Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.	Marilyn Monroe	men
1,066	65,514	If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.	Calvin Coolidge	success
9,265	66,554	My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.	Flip Wilson	teacher
11,172	68,849	To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No jerks allowed, members pay on time and if they give you any crap, throw them out. There's peace where there's order.	Joe Gold	time
8,909	26,868	Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.	Robert H. Schuller	future
6,109	165	Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.	James Joyce	age
6,142	75,231	If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.	Ben Stein	work
6,151	731	I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.	Greer Garson	age
6,549	12,440	I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.	Eric Bana	dad
8,953	65,901	Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.	Jonathan Sacks	success
4,702	7,471	The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.	John Hancock	business
10,618	6,799	It is best to love wisely, no doubt but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.	William Makepeace Thackeray	best
10,667	35,958	I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.	Steve Jobs	hope
4,811	47,598	But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.	Little Richard	money
2,846	15,769	Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.	Arna Bontemps	dreams
2,708	62,540	We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.	Bryan Cranston	smile
1,426	7,730	I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.	Mick Jagger	business
4,833	50,981	I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too just different than mine.	Beth Ditto	music
2,142	69,959	Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.	Simon Mainwaring	trust
5,108	42,880	Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.	Barbara de Angelis	love
6,672	26,621	I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.	Jennifer Ellison	funny
2,250	54,433	And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.	Lynn Johnston	poetry
9,431	42,450	If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!	Marilyn Monroe	life
2,625	38,329	People are smarter than you might think.	John Astin	intelligence
5,260	45,955	Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.	Rita Rudner	men
461	31,045	Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	great
3,639	17,697	People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.	Mikhail Baryshnikov	experience
391	53,971	Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.	Marilyn Hacker	poetry
982	13,685	As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.	Leonardo DaVinci	death
8,785	33,633	But I don't want to be out there anymore I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.	Toni Braxton	health
4,916	38,965	If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.	Henry Ford	knowledge
8,621	51,915	Nature is the art of God.	Dante Alighieri	nature
10,214	74,958	I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.	Harvey Fierstein	work
5,308	27,001	The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.	Jacques Yves Cousteau	future
9,734	75,746	I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.	Leon Uris	easter
7,925	2,664	Well, I want to do The Music Man. I think it's an amazing opportunity, but I think that they are probably looking at major movie stars right now, and I don't blame them.	Gregory Harrison	amazing
7,791	28,249	I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me.	Lil Wayne	god
7,533	49,994	Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.	Famke Janssen	movies
10,512	11,833	You can't test courage cautiously.	Annie Dillard	courage
10,997	8,680	What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars. I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway. The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.	Alan Jackson	car
3,243	21,241	It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.	Juliette Binoche	famous
8,841	38,003	Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.	Jacques Maritain	imagination
8,241	71,898	Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.	Susan B. Anthony	war
10,458	5,633	I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.	Zoe Saldana	beauty
7,027	58,199	What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.	Barry McGuigan	relationship
8,230	37,733	I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.	Andrew Wyeth	imagination
8,614	68,652	I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for.	Scott Brooks	time
524	72,665	For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda.	Phyllis Battelle	wedding
7,666	33,313	Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.	William Falconer	health
10,765	62,703	I wake up every day with a smile on my face.	Henry Ian Cusick	smile
6,342	48,732	Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.	Melanie Laurent	morning
8,914	25,276	There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.	Paramahansa Yogananda	friendship
6,675	70,185	It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.	Mariel Hemingway	trust
6,558	57,189	A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.	Henri Matisse	power
7,287	34,536	Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.	Ken Kesey	history
8,491	1,242	The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.	Rene Descartes	alone
3,362	63,760	You can't win unless you learn how to lose.	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	sports
1,808	18,743	There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.	Brian Ferneyhough	failure

6,048

75,541

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.

Jonathan Kozol

christmas

6,459

67,528

My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

K. Eric Drexler

technology

10,974

71,889

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

George Santayana

war

8,597

62,462

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

smile

9,891

43,307

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

William Arthur Ward

love

1,549

59,004

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

Carol P. Christ

religion

9,232

14,962

I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.

Neal Barnard

diet

2,858

32,460

How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

Dan Savage

happiness

9,697

61,224

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.

Tom Glazer

sad

988

15,682

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'

Sue Monk Kidd

dreams

9,427

66,373

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

Brad Henry

teacher

8,358

3,924

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Laurence J. Peter

art

984

73,572

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

Minna Antrim

women

6,494

50,857

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

Maynard James Keenan

music

2,045

54,728

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

Robert Penn Warren

poetry

3,614

69,099

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Benjamin Disraeli

travel

1,710

58,836

There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.

Jesse Ventura

religion

6,505

52,056

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

Auguste Rodin

nature

5,410

59,660

I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.

Eva Longoria

respect

7,932

25,142

Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.

Natan Sharansky

freedom

2,088

47,937

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

Ang Lee

money

4,382

70,369

You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.

Ali Smith

trust

8,730

18,563

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

Camille Paglia

failure

2,153

12,480

My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.

Jeb Bush

dad

8,937

50,932

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

Dick Dale

music

10,204

47,505

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

Jose Marti

money

6,306

75,026

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

James Dean

work

6,489

31,008

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Mae West

great

8,832

40,605

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

Dan Rather

learning

10,839

44,482

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

Mercedes McCambridge

marriage

916

35,491

When I was 14, I felt very rundown I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.

Gus Van Sant

home

2,376

75,267

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back.

Lady Gaga

work

6,233

43,444

My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.

Kelly Clarkson

love

8,166

52,212

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

Ron Taffel

parenting

148

48,739

What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that.

William Scranton

morning

2,107

15,044

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

Zhuangzi

dreams

1,239

4,571

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Walter Benjamin

art

6,708

8,225

Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.

Gwyneth Paltrow

business

10,229

56,122

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

Paul Cellucci

positive

7,910

44,702

Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.

Masaharu Morimoto

marriage

8,062

11,099

I get really cool gifts, and I know this sounds really lame, but I think one of the best gifts I've ever received was the Easy Bake Oven when I was younger. When I was little, I loved to bake! I want to get one now so I can make weird mini desserts for people.

Ashley Benson

cool

5,683

53,892

Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want.

Connie Stevens

pet

4,384

45,456

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

Marilyn Monroe

men

1,066

65,514

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Calvin Coolidge

success

9,265

66,554

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

Flip Wilson

teacher

11,172

68,849

To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No jerks allowed, members pay on time and if they give you any crap, throw them out. There's peace where there's order.

Joe Gold

time

8,909

26,868

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Robert H. Schuller

future

6,109

165

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

James Joyce

age

6,142

75,231

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

Ben Stein

work

6,151

731

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

Greer Garson

age

6,549

12,440

I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.

Eric Bana

dad

8,953

65,901

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

Jonathan Sacks

success

4,702

7,471

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.

John Hancock

business

10,618

6,799

It is best to love wisely, no doubt but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

William Makepeace Thackeray

best

10,667

35,958

I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.

Steve Jobs

hope

4,811

47,598

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

Little Richard

money

2,846

15,769

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

Arna Bontemps

dreams

2,708

62,540

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.

Bryan Cranston

smile

1,426

7,730

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

Mick Jagger

business

4,833

50,981

I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too just different than mine.

Beth Ditto

music

2,142

69,959

Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.

Simon Mainwaring

trust

5,108

42,880

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Barbara de Angelis

love

6,672

26,621

I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.

Jennifer Ellison

funny

2,250

54,433

And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.

Lynn Johnston

poetry

9,431

42,450

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Marilyn Monroe

life

2,625

38,329

People are smarter than you might think.

John Astin

intelligence

5,260

45,955

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

Rita Rudner

men

461

31,045

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

great

3,639

17,697

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

experience

391

53,971

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

Marilyn Hacker

poetry

982

13,685

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo DaVinci

death

8,785

33,633

But I don't want to be out there anymore I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.

Toni Braxton

health

4,916

38,965

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Henry Ford

knowledge

8,621

51,915

Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

nature

10,214

74,958

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

Harvey Fierstein

work

5,308

27,001

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

future

9,734

75,746

I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.

Leon Uris

easter

7,925

2,664

Well, I want to do The Music Man. I think it's an amazing opportunity, but I think that they are probably looking at major movie stars right now, and I don't blame them.

Gregory Harrison

amazing

7,791

28,249

I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me.

Lil Wayne

god

7,533

49,994

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

Famke Janssen

movies

10,512

11,833

You can't test courage cautiously.

Annie Dillard

courage

10,997

8,680

What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars. I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway. The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.

Alan Jackson

car

3,243

21,241

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

Juliette Binoche

famous

8,841

38,003

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

Jacques Maritain

imagination

8,241

71,898

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

Susan B. Anthony

war

10,458

5,633

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

Zoe Saldana

beauty

7,027

58,199

What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.

Barry McGuigan

relationship

8,230

37,733

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

Andrew Wyeth

imagination

8,614

68,652

I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for.

Scott Brooks

time

524

72,665

For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda.

Phyllis Battelle

wedding

7,666

33,313

Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.

William Falconer

health

10,765

62,703

I wake up every day with a smile on my face.

Henry Ian Cusick

smile

6,342

48,732

Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.

Melanie Laurent

morning

8,914

25,276

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

friendship

6,675

70,185

It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.

Mariel Hemingway

trust

6,558

57,189

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

Henri Matisse

power

7,287

34,536

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

Ken Kesey

history

8,491

1,242

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Rene Descartes

alone

3,362

63,760

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

sports

1,808

18,743

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

Brian Ferneyhough

failure