Jim Jannard Oakley Quotes

#1. It would be helpful if the universe would give us one big clue, or a giant compass, if you will, pointing to the direction we should be taking. In fact, the compass is there. To find it, you need only look inside yourself to discover your soul's purest desire, its dream for your life.

Deepak Chopra

#2. I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.

David Bowie

#3. I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.

Bill Gates

#4. Since Ireland's independence declaration was a century older, I could not be sure if his self-evident truths meant as much as they would in America.

Jennifer Harrison

#5. I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.

Robert Redford

#6. Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance ... In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

Ron Paul

#7. I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

Francis Bacon

#8. So I ask you, can you walk a mile? Every day, rain or shine, pain or gain, because you know you have to just to stay alive, just to breathe. Can you walk that mile?

Bella Andre

#9. We have this recurring dream that we're human beings, that we have bodies, that we're in time and space, that there is birth and death. To awaken from the dream of life is to be conscious of eternity.

Frederick Lenz

#10. There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

Leigh Hunt

#11. Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

Emile M. Cioran

#12. The business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

George Eliot

#13. Even in walking across the room you will very slightly alter your own experience of time and space.

Bill Bryson

#14. I'm good at disguising my feelings.

Michelle Pfeiffer