Quotes 71

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Anatole France

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Defeat—I do not recognise the meaning of the word!

Margaret Thatcher

When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.

Google Founder — Sergey Brin

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible…

Oscar Wilde

A person needs two years to learn to speak, and sixty years to learn to keep your mouth shut.

Lion Feuchtwanger

In bad times even a penny is money.

Yiddish proverb

I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.

Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

I don't exactly know what I am required to say in order for you to have intercourse with me. But could we assume that I said all that. I mean essentially we are talking about fluid exchange right? So could we go just straight to the sex.

John Nash, A Beautiful Mind

An estrangement in a family is a shame, but Death is the great unifier.

Dr. Pittman, Dexter

A boy's best friend is his mother.

Norman Bates, Psycho

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Henry Ford

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

Marilyn Monroe

Work could cure almost anything.

Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Jewish Proverb

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

Google Founder — Sergey Brin

A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return.

Jewish Proverb

Find that thing you are super passionate about.

Mark Zuckerberg

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction...

Tyler Durden, Fight Club

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Bill Gates

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

Ayrton Senna

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

You can never really know the size of a person's brain until you have to clean it off the carpet.

Ben London, Mad Dog Time

There’ll always be wars because men love wars. Women don’t, but men do.

Rhett Butler, Gone with the Wind

Great intellects are skeptical.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The things you own end up owning you.

Tyler Durden, Fight Club

As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again.

Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind

I been savin' this money for a divorce, if ever I got a husband.

Annie, It's a Wonderful Life

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

— Do you like animals?
— A lot.
— And people?
— Not so much, especially if they are strangers.

The Taming of the Scoundrel

The entire world rests on the tip of the tongue.

Yiddish proverb

I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Thomas Carlyle

In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Mark Zuckerberg

Go slow and you'll get there faster.

Yiddish proverb

When asked if they would like to have sex with me, 30% of women said, 'Yes', while the other 70% replied, 'What, again?'

Silvio Berlusconi

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Anatole France

A light purse is a heavy curse.

English proverb

Honesty is the best policy.

Benjamin Franklin

It never got fast enough for me.

Hunter Stockton Thompson

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Albert Einstein

When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.

Yiddish proverb

Having a pump is like having sex. I train two, sometimes three times a day. Each time I get a pump. It's great. I feel like I'm coming all day.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

And that's what I did. I ran clear across Alabama. For no particular reason I just kept on going.

Forrest Gump

There is no royal road to learning

Anthony Trollope

I don't have to go to Detroit to know it smells!

Dr. Gregory House, House MD

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Coco Chanel

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Time is more precious than money.

Yiddish proverb

I always thought it would be better, to be a fake somebody... than a real nobody..

Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley

Money makes the mare go.

English proverb

To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.

Bill Gates

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.

Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA

The world is beautiful but people make it ugly.

Yiddish proverb

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti...

Dr. Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs

Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will.

Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

Hunter Stockton Thompson

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Benjamin Franklin

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Coco Chanel

I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in… but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties.

George Clooney

Paul Varjak: I don't want to put you in a cage. I want to love you.
Holly Golightly: It's the same thing.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

A chatty person is an open letter which everybody can read.

Pierre Boiste

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Washington Irving