Oprah Winfrey Quotes
I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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I'd love to play characters that are so similar to me that it would be crossing limits, and then at the same time I would love to play characters that are so different from me that it would be that kind of challenge as well.
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The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.
