14213 Quotes

#1. It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

Jolene Blalock

#2. Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.

Buddy Rich

#3. We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.

Mother Teresa

#4. If ever a place had a karma of damnation, it's Rottnest. And all those slick galleries selling Aboriginal art were eroding away my will to live. It's as if Germans built a Jewish food hall over Buchenwald.

David Mitchell

#5. It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Aeschylus

#6. In return for surrendering to the throw, you are given the gift of flight,' he said.

Tan Twan Eng

#7. Children can be disgusting, and often they can develop extraordinary talents, but I'm yet to meet any child who can stimulate his carotid arteries inside his ribcage.

Ben Goldacre

#8. And anyway most people are idiots. They don't care about the why. They only care about what threatens them.

Orson Scott Card

#9. I still can't manage to keep a journal, and people have been telling me to since the fourth grade.

John Darnielle

#10. You can fail at what you don't love so you might as well take a chance on doing what you do love.

Jim Carrey

#11. I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

Manuel Puig

#12. Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others.

Marianne Williamson

#13. Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

Eric Idle

#14. The solution to the problems of the church today lies in solving the problems of individual Christians, and the remedy is a person - the Holy Spirit.

Charles C. Ryrie

#15. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

James Madison