How Quotes

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.

I don't see how a young American can vote for, well, can vote for a Democrat.

How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

It's fun to peek into other people's worlds and see how they go about doing things.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.

Spaghetti... I can't eat spaghetti, there's too many of them. No matter how hungry I am, 1,000 of something is too many. I'll have 1,000 pieces of noodles.

I went to see every angler on the bank to see how they were doing, to try to give them a few tips or whatever. But yeah, we had a lot of fun. It was definitely a good time and we're definitely going to do it again next year.

I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt?

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

The welfare state is collapsing all around us. There are people that realize that we can't go on this way, but I'm not sure how many people realize how close we are to the collapse of the U.S. financial system.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.