Quotes of the day

The best quote of the day

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

Tony Hawk
I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek

I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.

H. Rap Brown

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Rita Mae Brown

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Jean-Luc Godard

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

Camille Paglia

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

Major Taylor

The Orion capsule uses an escape system quite like that of the Apollo spacecraft in the 1960s and 70s: an 'escape tower' containing a solid-fuel rocket that will pull it up and away from Ares I in a pinch.

Henry Spencer

I personally feel a responsibility to demonstrate to that we girls have the power to not only gain equality for women but all sectors of society.

Kodie Shane

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

Max Jacob

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.

Joshua Foer

I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Yancy Butler

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

Isoroku Yamamoto

I became a vegetarian for about maybe a year. It was more of a little detox for me. I tend to do a lot of detoxes. I was on the Body Ecology Diet before I got pregnant, which I believe is one of the reasons I was able to get pregnant.

Tia Mowry

I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.

Robert Hass

Christianity advances whether there is religious freedom or not.

John MacArthur

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Thomas Jefferson

Wherever I go, God rules. When I walk on White House grounds, God walks on White House grounds. I have every right and authority to declare the White House holy ground, because I was standing there and where I stand is holy.

Paula White
We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive

We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.

Johannes Stark

I'm just myself. That's the best way to put it.

Post Malone

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Ken Blanchard

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

David Antin

One time I was performing so hard that I chipped my tooth on the microphone. For the rest of the show I was afraid to smile because I wasn't sure how much of my tooth was gone.

Victoria Monet

Non-violence is a permanent attitude we bring to the breakfast table and bring to bed at night.

Coretta Scott King

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Jean de la Bruyere

The closest thing to religion our family had was worshipping The Beatles.

Alex Wolff

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Virginia Woolf

Investment bankers do much of their business underwriting government bonds, in the United States and abroad. Therefore, they have a vested interest in promoting deficits and in forcing taxpayers to redeem government debt.

Murray Rothbard

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Ambrose Bierce

Thursday night football is here to stay. So we're looking at ways to make it safer. Now they're playing division games, so you limit travel. Now the question is, should you play Sunday night before a Thursday night?

John Madden

I have a half an hour warm-up I do that my voice teacher gave me. I exercise at least for an hour during the day. I don't have any superstitious rituals or anything like that.

Josh Young

Human uploads have such a natural advantage over present-day people in the environment of space, it's exceedingly unlikely flesh-and-blood beings will ever engage in interstellar travel.

Frank Tipler

I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.

Rob Walton

That a friendship ends doesn't mean it was weak from the outset; that it ends says nothing about its importance.

Rumaan Alam
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Charles de Gaulle

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.

Billy Corgan

My parents are like many across Britain. Neither on the breadline, nor loaded, they were determined to give their daughter all that any of us can ask from our parents: love, security, ambition and hope.

Liz Kendall

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.

Archibald MacLeish

'Star Trek' was an attempt to say humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in lifeforms.

Gene Roddenberry

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

Samuel Goldwyn

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.

Shelby Foote

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

Benjamin Banneker

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me.

Sharon Draper

In a cashless society, the cash has been converted into numbers, into signals, into electronic currents. In short: Information replaces cash.

Sarah Jeong

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

Joan Jett

I chose law because writing was involved. I didn't realize how boring legal writing was, but I even learned to love that.

Marcia Clark

Wearing a tuxedo isn't as simple as it sounds. I've been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It's surprisingly easy to go off the rails.

Paul Feig

I don't have a formula to pass on. I always did it my own way. Even today, I hold my independence close. It's what's most precious to me. Passion. Risk. Tenacity. Consistency. This is my professional history.

Giorgio Armani

I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.

Alfred Bester

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

Gordon Ramsay
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Abraham Lincoln

My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

Gregor Mendel

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Helen Keller

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

Bertrand Russell

What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

Elon Musk

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired. It's my relaxing time.

Paulo Coelho

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

Mickey Gilley

'Georgia' is very personal to me. 'Anniversary Party' was great. 'Anomalisa' is also another one that, particularly, is in my heart and will be forever. I do think it's a masterpiece; I really do.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

Stanley Hauerwas

Reaching compromise does not signal weakness, but rather is a sign of strength. The ability to compromise is the backbone of democracy.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

I like marriage. The idea.

Toni Morrison