Jonathan Swift Quotes
My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.
Jonathan Swift
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali
Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
Carly Fiorina
San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.
Gavin Newsom
It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
Wanda Sykes
I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
Imre Kertesz
I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
Gail Carson Levine
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
Walter Pater
Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
Salma Hayek
What we do is entertainment. We entertain people. Sometimes we inspire people, but sometimes we are just a way to fill their time.
Daniel Bryan
We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.
P. J. O'Rourke
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac Asimov
Frankie Muniz is amazing at everything he does. Many people don't know that he can play the piano like you wouldn't believe, and he can bowl and play basketball like you wouldn't believe.
Samaire Armstrong