35th Anniversary Quotes & Sayings

In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you. — Otto Von Bismarck

The error is this: it is proper for a creator to be optimistic, in the deepest, most basic sense, since the creator believes in a benevolent universe and functions on that premise. But it is an error to extend that optimism to other specific men. First, it's not necessary, the creator's life and the nature of the universe do not require it, his life does not depend on others. Second, man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only to him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be. The decision will affect only him; it is not (and cannot and should not be) the primary concern of any other human being. — Ayn Rand

Insanity is my dominant characteristic. - Christina McCall — William Bernhardt

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady. — Jackie Kennedy

If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued."
"If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway. — William Golding

Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again. — Tom Hooper

The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini. — Salman Rushdie

As an anonymous wit is supposed to have put it: Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas which, given enough time, changes into people. — David Christian

I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment. — Don Henley

I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're ... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations. — Aubrey McClendon

The most self-serving thing one can do is live their life selflessly. Selflessly give your experience. Selflessly give your knowledge. Selflessly give your time. Selflessly give whatever it is you have to give. And the world will rise to meet you. — Steve Harper

Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not sure man needs the help. — Bill Watterson

You can achieve a goal; you never really achieve your purpose, because your purpose is ongoing. It never stops. — Richard Bach

One cultivates one's life, one's friends, one's means, one's hopes. One goes from place to place, from triumph to triumph, in search of ambition and ambition's remedy as though in flight across some imagined map, the subject of a conversation in a comfortable English room. — Jesse Ball

Seeing what is wrong and how it could be made right propels us into action, but in that action we often leave other people behind and don't give ourselves enough time to be present, or to stop and reflect. Leaders have to get comfortable with pausing in that uncomfortable gap. — Jennifer Lawrence

If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife. — Catherynne M Valente