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• Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • Best
  • Unexpected

• I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Life
  • Nice
  • Technology

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Write

• Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

  

  Harold Taylor
  • Time
  • Important
  • Ahead

• We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Man

• They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • People
  • Old
  • Avengers

• My aim for now is to lead a peaceful revolution to remove this regime. I think if I can be in the street with the people I can achieve more than if I am the president.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Revolution

• He had discharged his destiny; now, perhaps, he could begin to live.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Live
  • Destiny

• This film is extremely visual. It is difficult to describe in words without running the risk of losing or boring the reader. I have come up with a simplified summary, therefore, like a readers guide, which will conjure up the images in as few words as possible :

  

  Luc Besson
  • Up
  • Words
  • Running

• Quotes of Calder (1932), from Abstraction-Création, Art Non Figuratif, no. 1, 1932; Republished in: Alexander Calder, A. S. C. Rower, Ugo Mulas, Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, Palazzo delle esposizioni (Rome, Italy) Calder: Sculptor of Air, Motta, 2009. p. 111 & p. 222

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Art
  • Air

• If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.

  

  Lewis Black
  • War
  • Peace
  • Bored

• In the beginning of your mixed martial arts career, you're not making good money.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Career

• Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

  

  Edvard Grieg
  • Eyes

• I read every single comment that comes in.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Single

• Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ.

  

  Aly Raisman
  • Life
  • World
  • Dream

• To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel.

  

  Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac
  • Positive

• You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Art

• People who barely know the two of you assume you are close friends; people who know both of you intimately suspect you profoundly hate each other.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Friends
  • Hate

• Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • Free
  • Funny

• You haven't done anything, its your fucking daughter. I just got a call -when I'm in Tiffany- from some woman telling me how I should prepare my vagina for my gynecologist appointment tomorrow. She booked me a fucking gynecologist appointment!

  

  Kelly Osbourne
  • Done
  • She
  • Daughter

• I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Believe
  • May
  • Government

• Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.

  

  Cato the Elder
  • May
  • Occasions
  • Firm