Oprah Winfrey Quotes

You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.

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• I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Men
  • Women
  • Think

• If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.

  

  Zendaya
  • You
  • Fan
  • Oakland

• I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Long
  • Job
  • Help

• We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Mistake

• The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Great
  • Book

• It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Too Much

• You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Baby
  • Matter
  • Parent

• I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Fashion
  • Rock
  • Dress

• We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Excellence

• But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Country
  • War

• As a real estate investor, you're ultimately accountable to you and your checkbook. Of course, you will need to stay on top of your local coding regulations and ordinances. But once you get the hang of it, you really shouldn't have any problems with ordinances.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Real
  • Problems
  • Real estate

• All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Men
  • Love

• I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Language

• I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Art
  • Creative
  • Mathematics

• It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • True
  • Terrorism

• George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • People
  • Forget
  • Name

• I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Movie
  • Age
  • Myself

• I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Sometimes

• All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Learn

• The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

  

  Aristotle
  • Things
  • Principles
  • Mathematics

• Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Love
  • Things
  • Blind

• All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.

  

  Maimonides
  • Great
  • Men
  • Wisdom

• And I said in underbreath -All our life is mixed with death, -And who knoweth which is best?And I smiled to think God's greatnessFlowed around our incompleteness, - Round our restlessness, His rest.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Life
  • God
  • Death

• You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Things
  • Find
  • Sacred