William Shakespeare Quotes

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.

I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this.

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.

I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.

Avedon wouldn't let me put wax between my teeth like I usually did.

Part of me wanted to disappear into a cave in India, and I did end up going on retreats there, but, don't ask me why, I always felt very strongly that the point for me was to find a way to live a truly spiritual life in the modern day world and be able to work with all the positive aspects of our cultural and technological advancements.

As an African American actress, there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.

It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.

I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.

I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life.

I would not describe my personality. And I think when you describe people, you are making a mistake. That's not how they are; that's how you perceive them at that moment. It's limiting in front of something that is magnificent and unlimited: life.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

Our world is moving at an ever-accelerating pace, and with the advent of social media, what happens in New York now can be reported across the globe 60 seconds later.

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

Here in Russia,, in many cities, people are irritated by Caucasian intrusion. Caucasians come from foreign countries; they are ubiquitous: in markets, shops, hotels, restaurants. They misbehave, and in this sense we have feelings similar to those that the Germans have toward the Turks and the French toward Algerians.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.