Browsing Topic Best Favourite Quotes

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Real music lovers are actually my favourite kind of people because they like to know, rather than just be told what to think.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

In God we trust; all others bring data.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

The things you own end up owning you.

A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine… each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting. A teacher must never impose this student to fit his favourite pattern; a good teacher functions as a pointer, exposing his student’s vulnerability and causing him to explore both internally and finally integrating himself with his being. Martial art should not be passed out indiscriminately.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.

I don’t have any favourite lyrics. Honestly, all of them I love ’em to death – it’s the same with songs. I don’t have just one favourite lyric, I love them all.

It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

I’ve always been interested in science – one of my favourite books is James Watson’s ‘Molecular Biology of the Gene.’

My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It’s Paul Scholes. In so many ways Scholes is my favourite.

My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex equation known as the Bayes theorem, which can be used to work out probability distributions. It had no practical application in his lifetime, but today, thanks to computers, is routinely used in the modelling of climate change, astrophysics and stock-market analysis.

Blood is drawn! I am impressed-though my hell-spawned powers will heal it! Besides… next to giving pain my favourite sport’s to feel it.

When I go, God’s going to have to give up his favourite chair.

I get off on hearing other people’s voices. I like voices: they’re my favourite things on records.

Ksubi’ – the Australian jean brand, they’re one of my favourite brands of just clothes and stuff, and the Swedish brand ‘Acne’, but other than that, not at this point in time designing. I wouldn’t mind collab’n with those guys though.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies – Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson.