Yoko Ono Quotes
We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
Quotes to Explore
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Love is a beautiful feeling.
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When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.
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Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.
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I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
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I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.
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I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'
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I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.
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My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too.
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Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
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Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.
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The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.
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Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.
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Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.
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No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.
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Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to wait until a sufficient number of details have been forgotten. Of course things seem simpler then! Our memories work that way; we retain the facts which are easiest to think about.
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
