1696 Quotes & Sayings

There was much less laughter and a lot more hanging around in the library when Hermione was your best friend. Harry — J.K. Rowling

There's always a price to pay for success, and it's the men who are willing to pay that price that determines the greats of each generation. — Mitch Wilson

Nevertheless his prodigious intellectual powers persisted unabated. In 1696, the Swiss mathematician Johann Bernoulli challenged his colleagues to solve an unresolved issue called the brachistochrone problem, specifying the curve connecting two points displaced from each other laterally, along which a body, acted upon only by gravity, would fall in the shortest time. — Carl Sagan

In Texas, if your name is Carlos, you're a Mexican. In Florida, you're a Cuban. In New York, you're a Puerto Rican. And I come here and I find out I'm an Eskimo. — Carlos Mencia

We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't. — Rick Yancey

Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance. — Thomas Beecham

If I were a carpenter, I would build you a window to my soul. But I would leave that window shut and locked, so that every time you tried to look through it all you would see is your own reflection. You would see that my soul is a reflection of you. — Colleen Hoover

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable. — Rita Dove

I changed the world; the world changed me.
Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected. — Libba Bray

I think we have lost our way when people like the [board of] governors and the CEO of the NYSE fail to realize they have a duty to the rest of us to act as exemplars. You do not want your first-grade school teacher to be fornicating on the floor or drinking alcohol in the closet and, similarly, you do not want your stock exchange to be setting the wrong moral example. — Charlie Munger

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music. — Emeli Sande

Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best. — Jessica Alba

A poet's first contract is with truth. — Vanna Bonta

Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself. — Romare Bearden

When the going gets tough that should be your inspirational reason to drive on. — Jon Jones

To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word. — W.E.B. Du Bois