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A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
Written by Edna Ferber
Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.
Written by Keith Henson
I never hitched my wagon to anyone, so what I achieved over the years was done with only my results on the field.
Written by Claudio Ranieri
You'd be surprised the type of people who are into metal when you see them. Sometimes I'm even surprised, but it's cool. That's the reason it's still around.
Written by Glenn Danzig
Television is hard work. It's all hard work. Theatre is hard work. I tell you, I have bruises from changing backstage. Those quick changes are really difficult.
Written by Loretta Swit
I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.
Written by Abbie Cornish
I love to learn; I really do. We'd study something in class, and I'd take it outside of class and become, like, obsessive and just research everything.
Written by Mary-Kate Olsen
To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
Written by Joe Namath
All of my friends are like, 'Look at me when I was a little kid. I was so cute!' and it's a picture of them in a tutu. I'm so terrified to show them my pictures, because it's me in boy shorts and a ponytail and my brother's shirt.
Written by Sofia Richie
Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.
Written by Fujio Mitarai
The people who depend on an antenna are often those who are underprivileged - the elderly and the disadvantaged who can't afford a $200-a-month cable bill.
Written by Gordon Smith
There are no French Puritans.
Written by Michael Korda
I think it is time people realized that people with Down syndrome can be sexy and beautiful and should be celebrated.
Written by Madeline Stuart
You have to understand, I grew up in the shadow of the Safeco tower.
Written by Mike McGavick
I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
Written by Gary Oldman
I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.
Written by Ze Frank
I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.
Written by Michelle Obama
We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.
Written by Jeff Miller
More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.
Written by Gregory David Roberts
In Latin America, cinema has always been a bourgeois activity, I guess, as it is everywhere. It's just a stupidly expensive art form, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Written by Sebastian Lelio
You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.
Written by George McGovern
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
Written by James Russell Lowell
My personal challenge is always balance. My life has a lot of compartments to it, and I care about each of them deeply. So I wake up each day thinking, 'How am I going to balance today?'
Written by Marc Platt
An evil life is a kind of death.
Written by Ovid
If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!
Written by Nathan Myhrvold
If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.
Written by Nathan Deal
I find that when you lead with vision and values, engaging employees and showing them that values are just as important as profits, everyone comes on board. And not only do they come on board, but they connect to their own individual creativity.
Written by Shari Arison
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Written by Yogi Berra
Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.
Written by Salman Rushdie
I feel like, with drum programming, the way I used to do it, I'd think of how somebody would play these drum patterns and then try to replicate that through programming. It's not that it's better or worse, it's just a different style.
Written by Tycho

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