10440 Quotes

#1. I don't think performance out of duty yields very much. Coercion is never the way to go.

Michael Hersch

#2. I suppose falling in love is finding that one person who can appreciate and understand why you want the things you want and do the things you do.

Jeffery Self

#3. But even as she was going through with it she knew it was useless, just as it was useless to save a single earring when the other half of the pair was lost

Jhumpa Lahiri

#4. The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers ...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#5. Be good, see good, receive good.

Adam Bercier

#6. We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe.

Denzel Washington

#8. No matter how big a comedian gets, they're ultimately all just a bunch of nerds with their weird insecurities. You realize these are just the people in high school who were making people laugh.

Reggie Watts

#9. Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

Richard Ford

#10. Being (who you need to be) and doing (what you need to do) are prerequisites for having what you want to have.

Hal Elrod

#11. My mother was the making of me.

Thomas A. Edison

#12. I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.

Bono

#13. There is something I have learned since being paralyzed, and that is that in the absence of sensory information, the imagination always tends to the grotesque.

Patrick McGrath

#14. Books were only a receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we would forget.

Ray Bradbury

#15. The total person sings not just the vocal chords.

E. M. Broner