You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen. — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day?" "Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured… — Ellen Meloy Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
I was wholly at peace, at ease and at rest, so that there was nothing upon earth which could have afflicted me.… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
If anything, I believe that when I die, I will have to stand in front of all the children who went to… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory;… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I began studying human emotions more than twenty years ago. At that time, almost every scientist working in this area was studying… — Barbara Fredrickson Copy Share Image
After more than twenty-five years in television, there are days when I feel like I'm just beginning, because I'm learning new things.… — Phil Keoghan Copy Share Image
I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of… — Stuart L. Hart Copy Share Image
It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Nothing is thought rare Which is not new and follow'd, yet we know That what was worne some twenty yeare agoe, Comes… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are. — George Michael Copy Share Image