Previously Forums Quotes & Sayings

I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is. — Mark McGwire

What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November 2, 2008, because of the progress and the spirit that it took to get Barack Obama in The White House. And what we didn't realize, is that was really the beginning. That was really the beginning of the struggle and not the end of a struggle, to come from colonial times through slavery, through the Jim Crowe Laws, through the civil rights period to The White House as, like a point A/point B journey. Point B of course being the end. — Questlove

Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons. — Khaled Hosseini

Striking a balance between wildlife conservation and wind energy development starts with understanding threats to eagle populations and how our actions, including operating wind farms, are affecting them. — Frances Beinecke

Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities ... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think. — Bill James

And then I get it. The 318s have somehow decided to make me do the things that are in my notebook. All the things I'm afraid of. The things I've been writing since the seventh grade. And if I don't, they're going to post the book on the internet, and everyone at school, no, everyone with an internet connection, will know all my secrets. For a second, it feels like my throat swallows up my heart and my breath catches in my throat. There's only one thing left to do. I put my head in my hands and start to cry. — Lauren Barnholdt

I think women have every right to feel like they're the protagonists in their own stories. — Kelly Sue DeConnick

You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?' — Antonio Banderas

You never fail until you stop trying. — Albert Einstein

I want to feel all my feelings, to have every feeling a person can have and never not feel it. — Sharon Stone

Did you not think this was what the world was like? the Man from the Valley said to me. — Alice Hoffman

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song. — Stephen Sondheim

It is far easier to see brave men die than to hear a coward beg for life. — Jack London

Massive edifice, with its impenetrable walls, its monumental gate, and its red-coated guards, I began to have doubts. What — Diana Gabaldon