How Quotes

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Someone who doesn't take herself too seriously and can be a goofball. Because everyone's a nerd inside, I don't care how cool you are.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

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

It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.

The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.

I've said things and meant them, but I'm obviously a very confused person who has no idea how they feel about things.

I go on the Internet and look at old pictures of myself, because it is the best reminder of how far I have come and where I do not want to be.