Aspirationally Quotes

#1. My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.

Aaron Sorkin

#2. I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.

Gabrielle Zevin

#3. Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. Curly

Maya Angelou

#4. Why must there be war?" "Oh Lavinia, what a woman's question that is! Because men are men.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes about people who happen to do sports. The best columns are the ones where you tie it somehow into the fabric of the country.

Rick Reilly

#6. If I were suddenly to become known, and (put into a position to) conduct (a government) according to the Great Tao, what I should be most afraid of would be a boastful display.

Lao-Tzu

#7. The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often the worst kind, and have been since the secular authorities stopped enforcing the local bishop's decrees of anathema.

Jerry Pournelle

#8. Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust

Pope Clement I

#9. The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Karl Marx

#10. Gothenburg's definitely a music city as well, but I think just because of the weather - it's so cold and miserable - people stay in. Coming to the States and going into the store and people are like, "Hi, can I help you?" - I'm not used to people randomly talking to me that I don't know.

Yukimi Nagano

#11. I think there's something extraordinarily nice about seeing the dawn up before one goes to bed, [] there's something uncanny about it.

Nick Drake

#12. I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office.

Avigdor Lieberman

#13. Catalan language is one of the most complete and perfect expressions that I know from the point of view regarding language, I not only read it since many years ago, but I understand it. Moreover, I speak it intimately too.

Jose Maria Aznar

#14. I was becoming stronger in some ways but weaker in others.

Mary E. Pearson

#15. Magic underlies the relationship between us, and the greater immensities of birth and death. Thus the experience of being in the presence of something magical is an empowering, uplifting experience. Magic, understood this way, contributes meaning to life.

Brendan Myers

#16. Understanding people's difficulties and - just as crucial - helping people understand their own difficulties and teaching them concrete ways to help themselves will help them better deal with their own lives and, in turn, ours.

Kathryn Erskine