1. But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
  2. Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
  3. Faith is a passionate intuition.
  4. For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
  5. Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
  6. Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
  7. How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
  8. I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
  9. In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
  10. Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
  11. Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
  12. Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
  13. Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
  14. Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
  15. Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
  16. That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
  17. That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
  18. The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
  19. The child is father of the man.
  20. The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
  21. The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
  22. The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
  23. When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
  24. Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
  25. With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

 

  1. Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.
  2. Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
  3. But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.
  4. But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.
  5. Every cliche about kids is true they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.
  6. For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.
  7. Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.
  8. I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.
  9. I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.
  10. I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.
  11. I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.
  12. I don't think I'm funny.
  13. I gravitate toward women.
  14. I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.
  15. I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.
  16. I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I'm acting. It's always, 'When I say you'll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?' Then, 'Yeah, Dad.'
  17. I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.
  18. Indeed I regard the enduring support which I have received over the years from all sections of the community in Ballymena as being more than sufficient recognition for any success which I may have achieved as an actor.
  19. It's an ongoing joy being a dad.
  20. It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.
  21. Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.
  22. To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.

 

  1. A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.
  2. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
  3. Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
  4. I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
  5. I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
  6. In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
  7. In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.
  8. In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
  9. Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
  10. Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
  11. My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
  12. No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
  13. One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.
  14. Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.
  15. Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.
  16. The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
  17. The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
  18. There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.
  19. There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
  20. We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
  21. We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.

 

  1. A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
  2. Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
  3. Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
  4. I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
  5. If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
  6. In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
  7. In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
  8. Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
  9. Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
  10. Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
  11. Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
  12. Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
  13. Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
  14. Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.
  15. Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
  16. Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
  17. Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.
  18. Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
  19. The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
  20. The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
  21. The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
  22. To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
  23. Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
  24. Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

 

  1. As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.
  2. Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
  3. From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
  4. I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
  5. I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
  6. I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
  7. I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'
  8. I'm a big fan of Mashable and TechCrunch and other outlets like that, but TechMeme obviously does an amazing job of aggregating.
  9. I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.
  10. People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.
  11. People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave,' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool.'
  12. People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.

 

  1. A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
  2. All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
  3. Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
  4. Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
  5. I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.
  6. I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
  7. I like children - fried.
  8. I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
  9. I never worry about being driven to drink I just worry about being driven home.
  10. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
  11. It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
  12. Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
  13. No doubt exists that all women are crazy it's only a question of degree.
  14. Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
  15. Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
  16. Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
  17. Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
  18. Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
  19. Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
  20. The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
  21. There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
  22. When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
  23. Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.
  24. You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

 

  1. An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.
  2. And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.
  3. Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.
  4. Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.
  5. Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.
  6. Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.
  7. I know where I'm putting my money.
  8. I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.
  9. If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.
  10. If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.
  11. In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.
  12. More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.
  13. Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.
  14. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.
  15. Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.
  16. Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.
  17. The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.
  18. There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times.
  19. These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.
  20. Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.
  21. Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.
  22. When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.
  23. You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

 

  1. A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
  2. A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
  3. As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
  4. Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
  5. Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
  6. Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
  7. Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
  8. Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
  9. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
  10. Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.
  11. It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
  12. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
  13. Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
  14. Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
  15. Love is space and time measured by the heart.
  16. Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
  17. The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
  18. Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
  19. Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
  20. We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
  21. We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
  22. Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

 

  1. A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
  2. Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.
  3. Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.
  4. I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.
  5. I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.
  6. I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.
  7. I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
  8. I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.
  9. I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.
  10. I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
  11. If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
  12. In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.
  13. One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
  14. Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
  15. Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.
  16. Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
  17. Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
  18. Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
  19. Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
  20. Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
  21. The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
  22. The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
  23. The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
  24. The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.
  25. The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
  26. The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.
  27. What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.
  28. You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

 

  1. All German women are beautiful.
  2. But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.
  3. But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me.
  4. Family comes first. You're the only thing they have.
  5. For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house.
  6. For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.
  7. I always wanted to be a mom.
  8. I believe that when you put a smile out there, you get a smile back.
  9. I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.
  10. I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.
  11. I have the best husband in the world. He's very involved.
  12. I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.I love when I go out and I have my hair and makeup done, but I also like it when I'm just with the family because that's real.
  13. I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.
  14. I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.
  15. If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want.
  16. I'm a lioness. I have four cubs. I'm a mom. I want to take care of my kids and protect them.
  17. In my job, people tell you that all the time: 'This shoot was great. You look amazing.' But you never know what they say when you turn away.
  18. It's not difficult for me to stay healthy. I like healthy food.
  19. It's not like I'm this glamour diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at home.
  20. I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.
  21. Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.
  22. The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.
  23. Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.
  24. When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad had a perm! I looked like a poodle, but it was cool at the time.
  25. With a family of six, there is always something to make, create and do together.

 

  1. A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
  2. An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
  3. Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
  4. Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
  5. Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
  6. For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
  7. Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
  8. I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
  9. I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
  10. I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
  11. I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
  12. I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
  13. Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
  14. My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
  15. My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
  16. Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one's sensations.
  17. Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
  18. The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
  19. The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
  20. The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
  21. We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
  22. When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
  23. You say a new era in art is preparing you sensed it coming continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

 

  1. I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.
  2. I am growing and learning. There's so much more that I want to accomplish and do. I'm gonna do it at whatever pace it happens. I'm not trying to rush anything or slow anything down.
  3. I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think I don't need or want anything to change that.
  4. I love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that while I'm on stage!
  5. I love food and I love my curves.
  6. I was always okay with the fact that I was taller and bigger than everybody else growing up. My mom, my dad, and my friends always told me I was beautiful.
  7. I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook.
  8. I'm so excited for my first fragrance! I chose to partner with Dots because I love what they do for their customers, bringing them the hottest trends in fashion, accessories and fragrance at unbelievably low prices. It's amazing!
  9. It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!
  10. It's funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said 'Sparkle,' I thought, 'For real? It's really called 'Sparkle?'' I was wondering, too, how does 'Jordin Sparks as Sparkle' sound?
  11. I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.
  12. I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.
  13. Sometimes I feel like there are people just waiting for me to fall. The funny thing is, I can't give them anything. I have just never been a partier, even in school.
  14. 'Sparkle' fell into my lap. I had heard a little bit about it, that it was being redone in early 2011. I was just kind of like, 'Oh, that would be really cool,' and not really thinking too much about it, and then it came through my agency. I read it,
  15. There's no quick or magical way to lose weight. You just have to do it the natural way - diet and exercise and stick to it - and be able to do it at your own pace.
  16. When I go out clubbing I can dance 'til three o'clock in the morning with just a water bottle in my hand. I love dancing to anything with a good beat really. My favorite song to dance to at the moment is probably Drake's 'Best I Ever Had.'
  17. When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on the inside of our wrists. Mine is 1st Timothy, 4:12.
  18. When I was on Broadway, I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is, the pounds just started to fall off.
  19. With my schedule being so crazy, I can't call every day or hang out with my friends like I used to and that's definitely sad.

 

  1. And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.
  2. Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.
  3. Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.
  4. My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.
  5. No, let's make sure that people understand that this is a very important war that is helping to protect us here at home. And that we have no choice but to win it. As difficult as it is.
  6. Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.
  7. Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.
  8. The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.
  9. The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.
  10. The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.
  11. They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.
  12. They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.
  13. We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.
  14. While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.

 

  1. A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
  2. A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
  3. Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
  4. Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
  5. Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
  6. Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
  7. I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
  8. If a man does his best, what else is there?
  9. If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
  10. If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
  11. If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.
  12. It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
  13. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
  14. No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
  15. Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
  16. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
  17. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
  18. The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
  19. There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
  20. Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
  21. Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
  22. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

 

  1. Cheerleaders deserve a lot of respect for what they do.
  2. Communication is so key.
  3. I can't watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out.
  4. I definitely think cheerleaders have no fear.
  5. I did find some time to go to a record store and check out 'Headstrong' actually in the racks. It was pretty cool I never thought I'd see my own CD sitting there with everyone else's. I made my Mom take lots of pics!
  6. I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom.
  7. I don't really believe in rules, but I do like old-fashioned dating where you don't call the guy until he calls you. I don't think it's like he's got to do this and that's the rule.
  8. I feel like every project I've ever done has had music involved in it somehow.
  9. I give dating advice on a regular basis. It's not that I'm any expert, but it's always nice to share that with your friends.
  10. I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I've always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it.
  11. I hope to inspire people, influence people.
  12. I love being home at Christmastime.
  13. I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.
  14. I text a lot people, because it's how I stay connected with all my family and friends when I'm on set and traveling.
  15. I want to be with someone who wants to work as much as I do and who respects me like I respect him.
  16. I'd love to do more action stuff, in the future.
  17. I'm a big romantic, so I love guys who are romantic too.
  18. I'm living out my dreams and I love what I do.
  19. I'm so grateful for what Disney gave me and the experiences that I got, but at the end of the day, I can do so much more than what I did on that channel and in those movies.
  20. I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.
  21. I've loved Michael Jackson, his music, his music videos.
  22. My family belongs to a tennis club in Valencia, California, so I always go there. I play a lot of tennis with my dad and swim. And I like to go to the gym there.
  23. My mom is very confident and she was always a role model of mine.
  24. My sister is totally my dad's daughter because she loves sports.
  25. Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like 'What did you do to yourself?' I was so embarrassed.
  26. Producing is just a big learning experience.
  27. The 'believe' tattoo is because my mom always told me to believe.
  28. When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.