Nikola Tesla Quotes

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

People may have thought that we changed a lot. I don't think we came in with that intention. Certain things I can't stomach. But I tried to be as collegial as possible. When you sign that contract, you're tied to that opera house to try your best. But every different team will play with a different intensity.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

I'm really a normal person.

When I came back to power, Georgia was completely isolated on the international stage.

I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of 'Performance' called 'The Entertainer' with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.

Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.

I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.

When I was five I thought auditions were a great way to get out of school!

Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.

Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.

I've always been shy.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

I'm definitely someone who enjoys life and wakes up with a ball of energy.

I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.

Raising myself and caring for my brothers and sisters allowed me the benefit of a lot of information that I wouldn't have otherwise gotten. I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.'

It's 2014, and women are still paid less than men. Does this suggest that a gender pay gap is an unfortunately permanent fixture? Will it still be with us in 50 years? I would predict yes. But by that point, it will be men who will be earning less than women.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.