Oprah Winfrey Quotes
You gotta be willing to fail...if you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far.
Oprah Winfrey
Quotes to Explore
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Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well.
Madeleine Stowe
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
F. Murray Abraham
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
Lake Bell
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I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.
E. P. Thompson
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Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
Ilya Ilyin
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Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
Samuel Beckett
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?
Talulah Riley
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
Gary Lineker
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I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
Tamara Tunie
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People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.
H. R. McMaster
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
Taylor Lautner
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People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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The idea of having a house, a kid, a husband, and a dog... I love that. I also really want to open a coffee and flower shop one day, probably in Italy.
Sam Smith
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I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.
Paget Brewster
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
Yani Tseng
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
Oscar Peterson
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There are many names to Allah plus one you don't know. And each name is an attribute that flexes his characteristics: the Benevolent, the Merciful, the All-Knower... And to me, my names be flexin' personalities of myself: Prince Rakeem, Bobby Digital, Bobby Steels, the RZA, the Rzarector... These are personalities of myself.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs
Achozen
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We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.
Silvia Cartwright
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I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters and take them in the different directions that I want to take them. You have a lot of freedom as a writer.
Ricky Schroder
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You gotta be willing to fail...if you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far.
Oprah Winfrey
