Famous Quotes By Martin Scorsese

 

1. A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.
2. Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.
3. As you grow older, you change.
4. Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
5. Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
6. Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
7. Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
8. Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.
9. I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.
10. I don't like being in houses alone.
11. I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
12. I mean, music totally comes from your soul.
13. I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.
14. If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?
15. It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.
16. It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
17. I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.
18. My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.
19. Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.
20. Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.
21. The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.
22. The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.
23. There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.
24. There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
25. Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
26. Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'
27. Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.

Famous Quotes By Tony Blair

 

1. Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny democracy, not dictatorship the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
2. But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.
3. Education is the best economic policy there is.
4. Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.
5. I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.
6. I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
7. I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists or surrender power. It's your choice.
8. In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.
9. In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.
10. In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.
11. In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.
12. It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
13. Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
14. My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.
15. My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.
16. My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.
17. Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
18. The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
19. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
20. We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

Famous Quotes By Epictetus

 

1. Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
2. First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
3. Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
4. Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
5. God has entrusted me with myself.
6. If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
7. If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
8. Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
9. Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
10. It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
11. It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
12. It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
13. Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
14. Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
15. Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
16. No great thing is created suddenly.
17. No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
18. Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
19. Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
20. Only the educated are free.
21. The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
22. The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
23. There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
24. To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
25. Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
26. We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
27. We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
28. Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
29. When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Famous Quotes By Horace

 

1. A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
2. A picture is a poem without words.
3. Anger is a short madness.
4. Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
5. Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
6. He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
7. It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
8. It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
9. It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
10. Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
11. Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
12. Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
13. Life is largely a matter of expectation.
14. Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it a mistress, if thou knowest not.
15. No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
16. Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
17. Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
18. Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
19. Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
20. Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
21. Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
22. Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
23. The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
24. The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
25. The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
26. To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.
27. Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
28. We are free to yield to truth.
29. Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
30. You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
31. You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Famous Quotes By James Dyson

 

1. Anger is a good motivator.
2. Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.
3. Beauty can come in strange forms.
4. Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
5. Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.
6. China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.
7. Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
8. Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.
9. Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
10. Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
11. Fear is always a good motivator.
12. I don't design down to a price.
13. I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.
14. I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.
15. I hate science fiction.
16. I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.
17. I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.
18. If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.
19. I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.
20. In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
21. My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
22. People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them.
23. So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.
24. The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
25. The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.
26. The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.
27. Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
28. When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
29. When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.

Famous Quotes By Erich Fromm

 

1. Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
2. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
3. Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
4. In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
5. In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
6. Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
7. Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
8. Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
9. Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
10. Man always dies before he is fully born.
11. Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
12. Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
13. The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
14. The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
15. The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
16. The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
17. The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
18. The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
19. There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
20. There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
21. There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
22. To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
23. We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
24. Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
25. Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Famous Quotes By Katherine Jenkins

 

1. Growing up with my family gave me some of my best memories. I'd like to have a family of my own - slip away for a bit and do nothing but spend those early years with my children.
2. I always want to give my best and do the best I can. I know when I have sung my best and when I haven't. There can be stresses and hassles with time travel and press attention. I just have to adapt and find a way of dealing with it.
3. I do follow a version of the Dukan diet, but I don't follow it to the extreme so a lot of fish and vegetables. If I want chocolate I'll let myself have a bit of chocolate in moderation.
4. I go home and don't get treated any differently. People have known me all my life and are interested and very supportive but because they have known me forever I don't get any diva treatment. My mum still tells me off if I haven't loaded the dishwashe
5. I love coming back to Neath - this is home and always will be.
6. I love to listen to pop music and I admire people who do that, but I don't think I would ever be a very good pop star. I always leave that singing voice for the shower! I wouldn't put it out in the world!
7. I really feel confident about my dancing now, so I hope there could be a place for me in the West End or on Broadway - maybe a musical, maybe my own show.
8. I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.
9. I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.
10. I think maybe because of the kind of music I sing, people want to believe you're a diva. They can't believe after eight years, and eight albums, you're still relatively sane. I feel like they almost want me to throw something at somebody.
11. I wish I got a little bit more time at home. I am away a lot and being around my loved ones and friends is good for me. It grounds me. It's something I need to make more time for. I think I need a little more balance.
12. I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.
13. If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.
14. I'm launching my own festival in South Wales. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. It's going to be held at Margam Park, because I wanted the venue to be as close to my home as possible.
15. I'm still a Welsh girl at heart so I'm staying in the U.K. for the Olympics, it's such an exciting time for Britain so it's amazing to be a part of it.
16. In Heaven, I believe my dad is somewhere doing something nice. I feel I've been too lucky to travel this far without somebody guiding me.
17. I've only ever wanted to be a singer I never wanted to be famous.
18. My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?
19. With all the hundreds of dresses and shoes I have, it would be an absolute crime if I don't have a little girl. I have a whole room at home filled with my stage wear.
20. You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did.

Famous Quotes By John Cusack

 

1. Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.
2. Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.
3. But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.
4. Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.
5. Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
6. Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.
7. I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.
8. I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.
9. I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.
10. I have a bit of a rebellious nature.
11. I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies really twisted.
12. I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.
13. I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan.
14. I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.
15. I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.
16. I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.
17. I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.
18. If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.
19. It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.
20. Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.
21. Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.
22. The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.
23. The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.
24. Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.
25. When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

Famous Quotes By Zig Ziglar

 

1. A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
2. Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
3. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
4. Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.
5. I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
6. If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
7. If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
8. If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
9. Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
10. Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
11. Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
12. People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
13. Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
14. Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
15. Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
16. Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
17. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
18. The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
19. When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
20. You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
21. You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.
22. You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
23. You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
24. You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
25. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Famous Quotes By John Adams

 

1. A government of laws, and not of men.
2. Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
3. All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
4. Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
5. Fear is the foundation of most governments.
6. Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
7. Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
8. I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
9. I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
10. I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
11. In politics the middle way is none at all.
12. Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
13. Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
14. Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
15. My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
16. Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
17. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
18. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
19. Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
20. The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
21. The happiness of society is the end of government.
22. The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
23. There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
24. When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.<
25. While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

Famous Quotes By Andy Warhol

 

1. An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
2. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
3. Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
4. Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
5. Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
6. I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.
7. I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.
8. I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
9. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
10. I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
11. I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.
12. I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
13. I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'
14. I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.
15. In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
16. Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
17. It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.
18. It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.
19. Land really is the best art.
20. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
21. My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
22. People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.
23. They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
24. What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
25. When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

Famous Quotes By Albert Schweitzer

 

1. A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
2. A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
3. Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.
4. By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
5. By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
6. Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
7. Example is leadership.
8. Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
9. I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
10. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
11. Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
12. Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
13. Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
14. Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
15. Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
16. One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
17. One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
18. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
19. Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
20. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
21. The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
22. The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
23. There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
24. Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
25. Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Famous Quotes By Danica McKellar

 

1. Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
2. I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.
3. I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.
4. I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.
5. I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
6. I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
7. I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.
8. I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
9. If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.
10. In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.
11. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
12. It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
13. Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.
14. My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.
15. My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
16. People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.
17. Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
18. The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
19. What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.
20. When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices.
21. When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.

Famous Quotes By Elizabeth Edwards

 

1. A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.
2. A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.
3. A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.
4. But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
5. Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.
6. Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.
7. I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.
8. I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.
9. I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.
10. I grew up in a Navy family.
11. I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.
12. I hope I have important things to say.
13. I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
14. I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.
15. I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.
16. It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
17. It's just a part of our nature to hope.
18. I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.
19. I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.
20. Maybe we all change over time.
21. One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.
22. Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
23. The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.
24. We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.
25. What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.
26. You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

Famous Quotes By Thomas Aquinas

 

1. As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
2. By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
3. Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
4. Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
5. Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.
6. Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
7. How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
8. How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
9. If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
10. If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
11. In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
12. It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
13. Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
14. Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
15. Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
16. Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
17. Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
18. That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
19. The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
20. The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
21. The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
22. The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
23. There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
24. To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
25. To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
26. To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
27. We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
28. Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
29. Wonder is the desire for knowledge.