I'll be famous one day, but for now I'm stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons." - Greg Heffley,
Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines and angles.
Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.
As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.
Preaching is the most original thing I've ever done. There's nothing familiar about it. You have to be brave.
I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.
There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.
The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.
We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.
They tried to discredit me. I used to tell them, There's many wonderful people out there who can't have children, who would want to have these children.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.
What's done is done. You've got to move on. I don't want to say anything bad about the mother of my children.
I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet.
I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.
It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.
It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.
