Prespecified Standard Quotes

#1. Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#2. All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.

Albert Pike

#3. I always keep my head down, working, doing things, moving forward. That's what I've done all my life. Then you stop and realize what you've done.

Isaac Hayes

#4. Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.

Ben Jonson

#5. If I give you two children films then come back and give you an adult film. I just love mixing it up and not being pegged into one specific thing.

Martin Lawrence

#6. Designers have a responsibility to show the future as they want it to be - or at least as it can be, not just the way an industry wants it to be.

Yves Behar

#7. Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art.

Gore Vidal

#8. I'm just a real person and I tell it like it is. I don't have a lot of secrets, which has been a fault of mine.

NeNe Leakes

#9. One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.

Richard Rohr

#10. Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

Josh Billings

#11. And if to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.

Sophocles

#12. And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing.

Katie Couric

#13. An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!

Anatoly Karpov