2710 Quotes & Sayings

People are always surprised when they spend time with my children by how normal they are. They're polite. They're well mannered. They're very down to earth, in a way. — Donatella Versace

Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily be, may become the most effective and benignant of all the forces of civilization. Two reasons sustain this position. In the first place, there is a universality in its operation, which can be affirmed of no other institution whatever ... And, in the second place, the materials upon which it operates are so pliant and ductile as to be susceptible of assuming a greater variety of forms than any other earthly work of the Creator. — Horace Mann

I had teachers who said I was not good enough. So, I said I will become good enough. So I became this guy who became obsessed to become good enough. Now I sit down and tell people who I was. Now, I say, 'Do you know who I am?' — Herschel Walker

I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person. — Gabrielle Union

American agriculture is badly in need of diversity. Another threat to the food system of course is the likelihood that petroleum is not going to get any cheaper. — Wendell Berry

I was wallowing in a small, but beautifully decorated pity party, complete with imaginary streamers.... — Alicia Buck

I don't give a toss about pressure. I spent afternoon sleeping and playing Playstation. Then I went out and won the World Cup. — Andrea Pirlo

I go to pick up a girl in a bar. I say will you go home with me? She says I don't know, do you have cable? I say no, but the rope should work just fine. — Emo Philips

I have never left you. And I never told you you couldn't go outside. Take your children and go outside and play and shop. Resume your life. What are you afraid of? — Kim De Blecourt

By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube. — Al Yankovic

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is. — Elbert Hubbard

All she knew was that whatever and whoever climbed out of that abyss of despair and grief would not be the same person who had plummeted in. — Sarah J. Maas

Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections. — Paul Hawken