There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Satire is used for political purposes all the time, but obviously there's a time and a place. I think in the current… — George Michael Copy Share Image
I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The term 'popular culture' always used to mean what the people do - pop songs, folk songs, music in general used to… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I used to be afraid of the dark. I would stand at my door, turn the light… — Brian Krause Copy Share Image
I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The American president increasingly used his influence to create conflicts, intensify existing conflicts, and, above all, to keep conflicts from being resolved… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I used humor to avoid being picked on as a kid. Or I would try and make my parents laugh, so I… — Wendi McLendon-Covey Copy Share Image
Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Atheists themselves used to be very comfortable in maintaining that the universe is eternal and uncaused. The problem is that they can… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you… — Courteney Cox Copy Share Image
I tend to compete every weekend with racing so I'm very busy training for both. The travelling is a lot but I… — Liz Halliday Copy Share Image
I used to eat because food tastes so good. I love food, it's one of the best things on this planet. But… — Jordin Sparks Copy Share Image
You can hire your advisor and then just apply a windage factor, like I used to do when I was a rifle… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I grew up bar-singing and saw all kinds of ways people tried to outrun their emotional pain. It doesn't work. You end… — Jewel Copy Share Image
I think philanthropy is also growing and catching on. Figuring out how the philanthropy sector, which is quite small compared to the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
You're either singing on TV or in front of a full cathedral and there's a bit of pressure there. I know it… — Alastair Cook Copy Share Image
Sometimes, all the interviews, those are the toughest thing for me, but once you really start to do it a lot and… — Inbee Park Copy Share Image
I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
People are used to being stimulated. People are drunk on entertainment and when you're going out and seeing movies where 200 people… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
I used to just let people tell me what to do. I didn't really have a mind of my own, and I… — Madison Beer Copy Share Image
Printing up extra money - with no backing - used to be the sort of thing only counterfeiters did. Now it is… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus, and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy,… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used,… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think bands will actually make more money without record companies; a much bigger share of the money will go to the… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
No "natural" resource is more precious and to be used more wisely than time. These mortal moments matter more than we know.… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange back when they used to write tickets. And I was just… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
With the rise of industrialism, words like 'normal' and 'defective,' words that had once only been used to refer to things, began… — Anne Finger Copy Share Image
John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
After my cancer diagnosis this year, I was offered a choice of treatments. I wanted to make an informed decision. This meant… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
