Popular quotes
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Keanu Reeves photo
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien photo
Alan Rickman photo

“On film you put all your energies into a single glance. ”

Alan Rickman (1946–2016) English film, television and stage actor
Vladimir Putin photo
Michael Jordan photo

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”

Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman

Source: Jordan, Michael. I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence. San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994. p. 129
Context: I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying [no hard work].
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (p. 20, 24)

Golda Meir photo

“When peace comes, we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.”

Golda Meir (1898–1978) former prime minister of Israel

Press conference in London (1969), as quoted in A Land of Our Own : An Oral Autobiography (1973) edited by Marie Syrkin, p. 242
Variant: When peace comes, we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.

Freddie Mercury photo
A.A. Milne photo

“Pooh, how do you spell love?' 'You don't spell love Piglet, you feel it”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

Variant: How do you spell love?
You don't spell it, you feel it.

Robert Downey Jr. photo

“It's like I've got a shotgun in my mouth with my finger on the trigger, and I like the taste of the gun metal.”

Robert Downey Jr. (1965) American actor

Source: explaining his drug addiction in 1999 to a judge

Mwanandeke Kindembo photo
Nikola Tesla photo
Jane Goodall photo

“Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?”

Jane Goodall (1934) British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist

Source: Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating

Johnny Depp photo
Charles Bukowski photo

“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Variant: she’s mad, but she’s magic.

Terry Pratchett photo
Albert Einstein quote: “What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
Albert Einstein photo

“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity