Oprah Winfrey Quotes
There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.
Quotes to Explore
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know.
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I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap.
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I'm not the kind of person who would throw himself into some exciting or dangerous situation just to get material. So I tend to go about my normal, boring life and just try to look at things a little more closely.
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I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.
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It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.
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There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.
