Talent is being able to please people.

I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,…

— Jacques Lusseyran

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

— Frederick Douglass

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,…

— Alice Englert

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any…

— Huey Lewis

I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still…

— Nas

I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it…

— Anthony Jeselnik

Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be…

— Pee Wee Reese

I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.

— Anais Nin

Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which…

— Greg Perry

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music…

— Pat Metheny

What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this…

— Emily Browning

The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and…

— Steve Jobs

It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a punk band,…

— Stephen Mallinder

- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki…

— Zadie Smith

There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate.

— Tracee Ellis Ross