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Theodore Bikel – I tried for a while to be an agri…
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn’t doing.
Melissa George – From about eight years old I was …
From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes and I’d use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.
Charles Eastman – The clan is nothing more than a …
The clan is nothing more than a larger family with its patriarchal chief as the natural head and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.
Jamie Redknapp – Although my dad Harry is the mana…
Although my dad Harry is the manager of West Ham we get on very well.
Madonna Ciccone – Things were a lot simpler in Det…
Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn’t care about anything but boyfriends.
Pope Paul VI – The work of art just like any fragm…
The work of art just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness the rigidity the regularity the luster on every interior and exterior facet of the crystal.
Dean Inge – All faith consists essentially in the …
All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind yet not apart from the world of natural phenomena.
Aldo Leopold – Is education possibly a process of …
Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
Michael Tilson Thomas – But those musics do not ad…
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
Robin Quivers – An apology might help but you can …
An apology might help but you can change your life without one.
Miguel de Cervantes – One man scorned and covered …
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.
Jane Pauley – My parents had an experience of life…
My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.
Jodi Picoult – The act of writing… is the act of…
The act of writing… is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately I think that’s the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.
Dag Hammarskjold – Your body must become familiar …
Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident imminent and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
Marilyn Monroe – I am invariably late for appointm…
I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong and too pleasing.
Victoria Wood – I once went to one of those partie…
I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don’t know who got my moped but I drove that Peugeot for years.
Shia LaBeouf – My family’s lineage is five generat…
My family’s lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.
Valentino Rossi – I don’t like being famous – it i…
I don’t like being famous – it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Steven Wright – I hooked up my accelerator pedal i…
I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas people behind me stop and I’m gone.
Art Blakey – Jazz is known all over the world as a…
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that’s it. No America no jazz. I’ve seen people try to connect it to other countries for instance to Africa but it doesn’t have a damn thing to do with Africa.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – What is uttered from …
What is uttered from the heart alone Will win the hearts of others to your own.
Donovan Bailey – Follow your passion be prepared t…
Follow your passion be prepared to work hard and sacrifice and above all don’t let anyone limit your dreams.
Max Beerbohm – People who insist on telling their …
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
Jimi Hendrix – In order to change the world you ha…
In order to change the world you have to get your head together first.
Andre Dubus III – Years later I would hear my fath…
Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and if he had the money an early dinner somewhere.