Inductee Def Quotes & Sayings

The ultimate moment where I most felt like a rebel was in St. Petersburg, Russia [in 2012 during the MDNA Tour] when I was told they were going to arrest anyone who was openly or obviously gay and they came to my shows and I spoke out against the government. — Madonna Ciccone

It just happened, — Margaret Peterson Haddix

When you play a team with as much attacking power as Barcelona and you restrict them to one shot on target in the second leg, you are doing something right. Have the best football team gone through? Yes. Have the best organised team gone through? No. — Jamie Redknapp

I can be very polite, and I think that people can confuse that for all sorts of things ... But I'll take that over people assuming that I'm smart just because I'm short and rude. — Amy Adams

Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you've had in months. — Anne Lamott

People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong. — Merlin Mann

I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties. — Malcolm Gladwell

Every drop of dew before it fades must feel itself immortal. — Marty Rubin

All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine. — Mark Hoppus

We enter the world with fists closed and when we leave, our hands are open. He said I should make full use of the time given to me for my life — Debalina Haldar

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share. — Virginia Woolf

Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We have some role in almost everything that happens in our lives. When "bad" things happen, the mistake is not in the role, but in calling them bad. For in calling them bad, we call ourselves bad, since we had a role in their creation. We then have only two choices: blame ourselves, or disown our creative power, neither of which is congruent with our highest purpose. — Neale Donald Walsch

Your heart will always go where your mind wanders. — Shannon L. Alder

...it was like finding a brother who farts in key. — Dale McGowan