Popular quotes
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Harry Styles photo

“We never learn, we been here before
Why are we always stuck and running from
The bullets?
The bullets?”

Harry Styles (1994) English singer, songwriter, and actor

"Sign of the Times", written by Harry Styles, Jeff Bhasker, Mitch Rowland, Ryan Nasci, Alex Salibian, Tyler Johnson
Lyrics, Harry Styles (2017)

Nikola Tesla photo

“Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result of persistent trials and experiments often performed at random but always attesting extraordinary vigor and resource. Starting from a few known elements, he would make their combinations and permutations, tabulate them and run through the whole list, completing test after test with incredible rapidity until he obtained a clue. His mind was dominated by one idea, to leave no stone unturned, to exhaust every possibility.”

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor

Mwanandeke Kindembo photo

“It would be impossible for any individual to accept the feelings, or emotions of temptation without wishing to gain something great in return.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Charles Bukowski photo

“I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Variant: being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
Source: Women

Virginia Woolf photo

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own

Variant: There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Source: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 4, p. 90

Raphael photo

“Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves.”

Raphael (1483–1520) Italian painter and architect

Quote from: 1001 quotations to inspire you before you die; Quintessence Editions Ltd., 2016, ISBN 978-1-84403-895-4

Dietrich Bonhoeffer photo

“In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi

Source: Letters and Papers from Prison

Ibn Battuta photo

“Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”

Ibn Battuta (1304–1377) Moroccan explorer

Source: The Travels of Ibn Battutah

Rick Riordan photo

“You drool when you sleep.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Albert Einstein photo

“I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”

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

Malcolm X photo

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

Dmitri Shostakovich photo

“What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in "serious" music.”

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) Russian composer and pianist

From an article in Sovetskoye Iskusstvo, November 5, 1934; translation from Laurel Fay Shostakovich: A Life (2000) p. 77.

John C. Maxwell photo

“We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

Lionel Messi photo

“It doesn't matter if I am better than Cristiano Ronaldo, all that matters is that Barcelona are better than Madrid.”

Lionel Messi (1987) Argentine association football player

After scoring four goals against Arsenal, 2011 http://www.taringa.net/posts/deportes/12977787/Grandes-frases-de-y-sobre-Messi.html

Ernest Hemingway photo

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Marita in Ch. 11
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)

Sigmund Freud photo

“The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis