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“It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.”

Pinned on Harry S. Truman Verifying source

“Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”

Pinned on Anne Frank Disputed

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

Pinned on Jane Austen Disputed

“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint.”

Pinned on Jane Austen Disputed

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

Pinned on Robert Frost Verifying source

“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”

Pinned on Robert Frost Verifying source

“But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?”

Pinned on Lewis Carroll Likely misattributed

“How long is forever? Sometimes, just one second.”

Pinned on Lewis Carroll Likely misattributed

“I am under no obligation to make sense to you.”

Pinned on Lewis Carroll Likely misattributed

“If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.”

Pinned on Lewis Carroll Likely misattributed

“I'm not crazy. My reality is just different than yours.”

Pinned on Lewis Carroll Likely misattributed

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”

Pinned on Lewis Carroll Likely misattributed

“The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.”

Pinned on Lewis Carroll Likely misattributed

“Have I gone mad? I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”

Pinned on Lewis Carroll Likely misattributed

“You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants a magical solution to their problem, and everyone refuses to believe in magic.”

Pinned on Lewis Carroll Likely misattributed

“Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.”

Pinned on Rosa Parks Likely misattributed

“You can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!”

Pinned on Anne Frank Verifying source

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!”

Pinned on Jane Austen Verifying source

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

Pinned on Jane Austen Verifying source

“Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.”

Pinned on Rosa Parks Disputed

“I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.”

Pinned on Rosa Parks Disputed

“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.”

Pinned on Rosa Parks Disputed

“I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.”

Pinned on Rosa Parks Disputed

“Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.”

Pinned on Rosa Parks Disputed

“But I don't want to go among mad people, Alice remarked. Oh, you can't help that, said the Cat: we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.”

Pinned on Lewis Carroll Verifying source

“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”

Pinned on Lewis Carroll Verifying source

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

Pinned on Lewis Carroll Verifying source

“But when that white driver stepped back toward us, when he waved his hand and ordered us up and out of our seats, I felt a determination cover my body like a quilt on a winter night.”

Pinned on Rosa Parks Verifying source

“I had been pushed around all my life and felt at this moment that I couldn't take it anymore.”

Pinned on Rosa Parks Verifying source

“People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”

Pinned on Rosa Parks Verifying source

“Let Us Make a Special Effort to Stop Communicating with Each Other, So We Can Have Some Conversation”

Pinned on Judith Martin Disputed

“Just Close Your Eyes and Think of England”

Pinned on Lucy Baldwin Disputed

“Cool Papa was so fast that he could turn off the light switch and get into bed before the room got dark.”

Pinned on Satchel Paige Verifying source

“Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.”

Pinned on Satchel Paige Verifying source

“I have never thrown an illegal pitch. The trouble is some of my pitches were never seen by this generation until I came along.”

Pinned on Satchel Paige Verifying source

“At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.”

Pinned on David Ogilvy Verifying source

“If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.”

Pinned on David Ogilvy Verifying source

“Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read.”

Pinned on David Ogilvy Verifying source

“The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.”

Pinned on David Ogilvy Verifying source

“I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.”

Pinned on Sam Walton Disputed

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.”

Pinned on Sam Walton Disputed

“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”

Pinned on Sam Walton Disputed

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

Pinned on Marcus Tullius Cicero Disputed

“Freedom is participation in power.”

Pinned on Marcus Tullius Cicero Disputed

“My Mind Is Made Up. Don't Confuse Me With the Facts”

Pinned on Roy S. Durstine Disputed

“There Is No Greater Mistake than To Try To Leap an Abyss in Two Jumps”

Pinned on Arianna Huffington Likely misattributed

“How Will You Get Robots to Pay Union Dues?" "How Will You Get Robots to Buy Cars?”

Pinned on Henry Ford II Likely misattributed

“I Did It For My Own Pleasure. Then I Did It For My Friends. Now I Do It For Money”

Pinned on Ad Reinhardt Disputed

“So I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for”

Pinned on Lou Gehrig Verifying source

“Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth”

Pinned on Lou Gehrig Verifying source

“The Race Is Not Always to the Swift, Nor the Battle to the Strong; But That Is the Best Way to Bet”

Pinned on Damon Runyon Disputed

“It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes.”

Pinned on Lee Iacocca Verifying source

“We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff”

Pinned on Lee Iacocca Verifying source

“A man has to have goals — for a day, for a lifetime — and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'”

Pinned on Ted Williams Verifying source

“If you don't think too good, don't think too much.”

Pinned on Ted Williams Verifying source

“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”

Pinned on Lao Tzu Disputed

“You Just Chip Away Everything That Doesn't Look Like David”

Pinned on Orison Swett Marden Likely misattributed

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'”

Pinned on C.S. Lewis Verifying source

“There are two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'Thy will be done.'”

Pinned on C.S. Lewis Verifying source

“In dreams begins responsibility.”

Pinned on W. B. Yeats Verifying source

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”

Pinned on W. B. Yeats Verifying source

“Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.”

Pinned on W. B. Yeats Verifying source

“They Haven't Done Anything to My Book. It's Right There on the Shelf”

Pinned on James M. Cain Disputed

“Origin of a Theatrical Review: I Saw It Under Adverse Conditions. The Curtain Was Up”

Pinned on George Jean Nathan Likely misattributed

“Let's win one for the Gipper”

Pinned on Knute Rockne Verifying source

“Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up”

Pinned on Knute Rockne Verifying source

“The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven”

Pinned on Knute Rockne Verifying source

“When I Read About the Evils of Smoking, I Gave Up Reading”

Pinned on Joe E. Lewis Likely misattributed

“There is a Conspiracy of Silence Against Me. What Should I Do, Oscar?" "Join It”

Pinned on Augustine Birrell Disputed

“He had shoulder surgery on his elbow.”

Pinned on Lou Holtz Verifying source

“If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.”

Pinned on Lou Holtz Verifying source

“On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.”

Pinned on Lou Holtz Verifying source

“The next flag they plant will be all white, and it'll be surrender.”

Pinned on Lou Holtz Verifying source

“They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.”

Pinned on Lou Holtz Verifying source

“Melancholy Is the Pleasure of Being Sad”

Pinned on H.L. Mencken Likely misattributed

“Insanity Is Hereditary. You Can Get It from Your Children”

Pinned on Ann Landers Likely misattributed

“Niagara Falls: The First Great Disappointment in Married Life”

Pinned on Ann Landers Likely misattributed

“Nobody Will Ever Win the Battle of the Sexes. There's Too Much Fraternizing with the Enemy”

Pinned on Ann Landers Likely misattributed

“Our Host Certainly Is Outspoken" "Outspoken By Whom?”

Pinned on Ann Landers Likely misattributed

“For this one virtue is not only the greatest, but is also the parent of all the other virtues.”

Pinned on Marcus Tullius Cicero Verifying source

“Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.”

Pinned on Marcus Tullius Cicero Verifying source

“Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever.”

Pinned on Marcus Tullius Cicero Verifying source

“Laughter Would Be Bereaved If Snobbery Died”

Pinned on James Ussher Disputed

“There Are Two Kinds of People, Those Who Do the Work and Those Who Take the Credit”

Pinned on Dwight Morrow Disputed

“Fathers Should Give the Gift of Time to Their Children”

Pinned on Ann Landers Disputed

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

Pinned on Lao Tzu Verifying source

“He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.”

Pinned on Lao Tzu Verifying source

“Millions Are To Be Grabbed Out Here, and Your Only Competition Is Idiots”

Pinned on Herman J. Mankiewicz Disputed

“Absinthe: After the First Glass, You See Things As You Wish They Were”

Pinned on Ada Leverson Likely misattributed

“Any Idiot Can Face a Crisis; It's This Day-To-Day Living That Wears You Out”

Pinned on Clifford Odets Likely misattributed

“Give the People What They Want and They'll Come”

Pinned on Goodman Ace Disputed

“The Male Libido is Like Being Chained to a Madman”

Pinned on David Niven Disputed

“Venice Streets Are Full of Water. Please Advise”

Pinned on David Niven Disputed

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

Pinned on Dalai Lama Verifying source

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”

Pinned on Dalai Lama Verifying source

“A Kiss Is A Trick of Nature to Stop Speech When Words Are Superfluous”

Pinned on Evan Esar Likely misattributed

“Fanatic: One Who Can't Change His Mind and Won't Change the Subject”

Pinned on Evan Esar Likely misattributed

“Money Can't Buy Love, But It Improves Your Bargaining Position”

Pinned on Evan Esar Likely misattributed

“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”

Pinned on Jim Rohn Verifying source

“Did You Lose the Keys Here?" "No, But the Light Is Much Better Here”

Pinned on Evan Esar Disputed

“Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change.”

Pinned on Wayne Dyer Disputed

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

Pinned on Wayne Dyer Disputed

“They Riot in the Streets Inflamed with Wild Notions; Their Morals Are Decaying”

Pinned on Theodore Hesburgh Likely misattributed

“St Paul's Cathedral Is Amusing, Awful, and Artificial”

Pinned on King Charles II Disputed

“The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done”

Pinned on Arnold Palmer Disputed

“It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.”

Pinned on Jack Nicklaus Verifying source

“The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.”

Pinned on Jack Nicklaus Verifying source

“Why Don't You Carry a Wrist Watch Like Everyone Else?”

Pinned on Herbert Beerbohm Tree Likely misattributed

“Combining the Mount Wilson and Mount Palomar Telescopes Still Won't Be Enough”

Pinned on Clifton Fadiman Likely misattributed

“The Difficult We Do Immediately. The Impossible Takes a Little Longer”

Pinned on Charles Alexandre de Calonne Disputed

“A Master in the Art of Living Makes Little Distinction Between His Work and His Play”

Pinned on James Michener Disputed

“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment.”

Pinned on Thich Nhat Hanh Verifying source

“The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.”

Pinned on Thich Nhat Hanh Verifying source

“Your true home is in the here and the now.”

Pinned on Thich Nhat Hanh Verifying source

“I Only Write When Inspiration Strikes. Fortunately It Strikes at Nine Every Morning”

Pinned on Peter De Vries Likely misattributed

“Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.”

Pinned on R. Buckminster Fuller Disputed

“There's nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”

Pinned on R. Buckminster Fuller Disputed

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

Pinned on R. Buckminster Fuller Disputed

“If Men Could Get Pregnant, Abortion Would Be a Sacrament”

Pinned on Florynce Kennedy Disputed

“Figures Don't Lie, But Liars Do Figure”

Pinned on Carroll D. Wright Disputed

“When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her.”

Pinned on Estée Lauder Verifying source

“I Had Six Theories About Bringing Up Children”

Pinned on Leonard Lyons Likely misattributed

“You handle animals. You deal with people.”

Pinned on Red Auerbach Verifying source

“In a world of individuals, comparison is a senseless activity.”

Pinned on Wayne Dyer Verifying source

“You will never win if you have to prove that you are the winner.”

Pinned on Wayne Dyer Verifying source

“When I Wrote It, Only God and I Knew the Meaning; Now God Alone Knows”

Pinned on G. W. F. Hegel Disputed

“An Epigram is Only a Wisecrack That’s Played Carnegie Hall”

Pinned on Edmund Fuller Likely misattributed

“I've always believed the British Open is one of the greatest championships in the world”

Pinned on Arnold Palmer Verifying source

“Maybe you'll fail most of the time, but until you've dared to try and have brought off an impossible shot from the rough or from the water, you haven't really tasted the game”

Pinned on Arnold Palmer Verifying source

“For the love of money is the root of all evil”

Pinned on Paul the Apostle Verifying source

“In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”

Pinned on Paul the Apostle Verifying source

“Cooking Is Like Love. It Should Be Entered Into with Abandon or Not At All”

Pinned on Harriet Van Horne Disputed

“Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.”

Pinned on Henry Scott Holland Verifying source

“Don't fight forces, use them.”

Pinned on R. Buckminster Fuller Verifying source

“God, to me, it seems is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.”

Pinned on R. Buckminster Fuller Verifying source

“Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.”

Pinned on R. Buckminster Fuller Verifying source

“Eat a Live Frog Every Morning, and Nothing Worse Will Happen to You the Rest of the Day”

Pinned on Emile Zola Disputed

“If I Had a Single Flower for Every Time I Think of You, I Could Walk Forever in My Garden”

Pinned on Alfred Lord Tennyson Likely misattributed

“A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action”

Pinned on Tony Robbins Verifying source

“All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs”

Pinned on Tony Robbins Verifying source

“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy”

Pinned on Tony Robbins Verifying source

“The quality of your life is the quality of your communication”

Pinned on Tony Robbins Verifying source

“None of This Nonsense about Women and Children First”

Pinned on Noel Coward Disputed

“It's Too Caustic" "To Hell With the Cost”

Pinned on Alva Johnston Likely misattributed

“A Gentleman Is a Man Who Never Gives Offense Unintentionally”

Pinned on Lord Chesterfield Disputed

“It's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.”

Pinned on Clayton Christensen Verifying source

“Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow.”

Pinned on Clayton Christensen Verifying source

“The prediction of my disruption theory would be that Apple won't succeed with the iPhone. History speaks pretty loudly on that.”

Pinned on Clayton Christensen Verifying source

“I Did Not Attend the Funeral, But I Sent a Nice Letter Saying I Approved of It”

Pinned on Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar Disputed

“Even If You Win the Rat Race, You're Still a Rat”

Pinned on Graffito Disputed

“Meretricious and a Happy New Year”

Pinned on Franklin P. Adams Likely misattributed

“Substitute 'Damn' Every Time You're Inclined to Write 'Very'”

Pinned on Franklin P. Adams Likely misattributed

“Your Bald Head Feels as Smooth as My Wife's Cheek”

Pinned on Franklin P. Adams Disputed

“The Graveyards Are Full of Indispensable Men”

Pinned on Charles De Gaulle Likely misattributed

“Believe Those Who Are Seeking the Truth; Doubt Those Who Find It”

Pinned on Francois Truffaut Likely misattributed

“Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.”

Pinned on The Gospel of Matthew Verifying source

“Aeroplanes and Tanks Are Only Accessories to the Man and the Horse”

Pinned on Douglas Haig Disputed

“A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.”

Pinned on Jim Collins Verifying source

“For no matter what we achieve, if we don't spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect, we cannot possibly have a great life.”

Pinned on Jim Collins Verifying source

“It is better to first get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats, and then figure out where to drive.”

Pinned on Jim Collins Verifying source

“There is a direct relationship between the absence of celebrity and the presence of good-to-great results.”

Pinned on Jim Collins Verifying source

“Those who built the visionary companies wisely understood that it is better to understand who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will almost certainly change.”

Pinned on Jim Collins Verifying source

“If We Should Have to Leave Our Bleached Bones on These Desert Sands in Vain, Then Beware the Anger of the Legions.”

Pinned on Jean Larteguy Disputed

“It Ain’t Over ’Til the Fat Lady Sings”

Pinned on Ralph Carpenter Disputed

“Reorganizing is a Wonderful Method for Creating the Illusion of Progress while Actually Producing Confusion, Inefficiency, and Demoralization”

Pinned on Gaius Petronius Arbiter Disputed

“'Dog Bites a Man' Is Not News. 'Man Bites a Dog' Is News”

Pinned on Charles A. Dana Disputed

“If You Can Read This, You've Come Too Close”

Pinned on Frank Sullivan Likely misattributed

“Golf: Hit a Very Small Ball into an Even Smaller Hole, with Weapons Singularly Ill-Designed for the Purpose”

Pinned on George Curzon Disputed

“I Hope He Will Bite My Other Generals and Make Them Mad, Too”

Pinned on King George II Disputed

“Oh, the comfort—the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person—having neither to weigh thoughts, nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away”

Pinned on Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Verifying source

“He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase”

Pinned on The Preacher Verifying source

“The Only Time an Aircraft Has Too Much Fuel On Board Is When It Is On Fire”

Pinned on Charles Kingsford-Smith Disputed

“Only Monarchs, Editors, and People with Tapeworms Have the Right to Use the Editorial 'We'”

Pinned on George H. Derby Disputed

“Why Should Any Man Be Allowed to Buy a Printing Press and Disseminate Pernicious Opinions?”

Pinned on George Riddell Disputed

“Do You Prefer Grass or Astroturf" "I Don't Know. I Never Smoked Astroturf”

Pinned on Charles Edward Greene Likely misattributed

“But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”

Pinned on The Book of Isaiah Verifying source

“You Can Get Much Further with a Kind Word and a Gun than with a Kind Word Alone”

Pinned on Willie Sutton Likely misattributed

“Live Fast, Die Young, and Leave a Beautiful Corpse”

Pinned on James Dean Disputed

“French Have Taken Umbrage. English Have Taken Cognizance.”

Pinned on James Matthew Barrie Disputed

“Everybody Steals in Commerce and Industry. I've Stolen A Lot Myself”

Pinned on Martin Andre Rosanoff Disputed

“I Rob Banks Because That's Where the Money Is”

Pinned on Willie Sutton Disputed

“Confused on a Higher Level and About More Important Things”

Pinned on Bernt Oksendal Likely misattributed

“Three Things Can Happen When You Pass and Two of Them Are Bad”

Pinned on Darrell Royal Disputed

“A Rainy Day, Lost Luggage, and Tangled Christmas Tree Lights”

Pinned on H. Jackson Brown Likely misattributed

“You Can Avoid Reality, But You Cannot Avoid the Consequences of Avoiding Reality”

Pinned on Josiah Stamp Likely misattributed

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”

Pinned on Phil Jackson Disputed

“She Is Too Fond of Books, and It Has Turned Her Brain”

Pinned on Liz Smith Disputed

“Know Your Lines and Don't Bump Into the Furniture”

Pinned on Lynn Fontanne Disputed

“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”

Pinned on Wayne Gretzky Verifying source

“It's not personal, it's strictly business”

Pinned on unknown Disputed

“What we have here is a failure to communicate.”

Pinned on unknown Disputed

“You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!”

Pinned on unknown Disputed

“The Market Can Remain Irrational Longer Than You Can Remain Solvent”

Pinned on A. Gary Shilling Disputed

“There Is Nothing So Disastrous As a Rational Investment Policy In an Irrational World”

Pinned on Albert J. Hettinger Disputed

“If You Steal From One Author, It's Plagiarism; If You Steal From Many, It's Research”

Pinned on Asa George Baker Disputed

“A Story Should Have a Beginning, a Muddle and an End”

Pinned on C. E. Lombardi Disputed

“Drunk on the Idea That Love, Only Love, Could Heal Our Brokenness”

Pinned on Christopher Poindexter Disputed

“If Tetris Has Taught Me Anything, It's That Errors Pile Up and Accomplishments Disappear”

Pinned on Damana Madden Disputed

“Capitalism: The Nastiest of Men for the Nastiest of Motives Will Somehow Work for the Benefit of All”

Pinned on E. Austin Robinson Disputed

“Modern Man Drives a Mortgaged Car Over a Bond-Financed Highway on Credit-Card Gas”

Pinned on Earl Wilson Disputed

“A Different World Cannot Be Built By Indifferent People”

Pinned on Peter Marshall Disputed

“You Have To Kiss A Lot Of Frogs To Find Your Prince”

Pinned on The Stichery Disputed

“Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”

Pinned on Jesus, as recorded in the Gospel of Luke Verifying source

“He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.”

Pinned on Proverbs 25:28 Verifying source

“A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.”

Pinned on unknown Verifying source

“All we've got is cotton, and slaves and...arrogance.”

Pinned on unknown Verifying source

“Elementary, my dear Holmes, elementary.”

Pinned on unknown Verifying source

“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.”

Pinned on unknown Verifying source

“Gentlemen, it's been a privilege flying with you.”

Pinned on unknown Verifying source

“I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner.”

Pinned on unknown Verifying source

“I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!”

Pinned on unknown Verifying source

“I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse”

Pinned on unknown Verifying source

“Let's work the problem, people. Let's not make things any worse by guessing.”

Pinned on unknown Verifying source

“Lips red as the rose, hair black as ebony, skin white as snow.”

Pinned on unknown Verifying source

“Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?”

Pinned on unknown Verifying source

“Momma says stupid is as stupid does.”

Pinned on unknown Verifying source

“No! Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.”

Pinned on unknown Verifying source

“Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'.”

Pinned on unknown Verifying source

“Now I know what it feels like to be God!”

Pinned on unknown Verifying source

“Now you know why they call me 'Dirty Harry'. I get every dirty job that comes along.”

Pinned on unknown Verifying source

“People will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.”

Pinned on unknown Verifying source

“So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.”

Pinned on unknown Verifying source

“Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before.”

Pinned on unknown Verifying source

“When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.”

Pinned on unknown Verifying source

“Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.”

Pinned on unknown Verifying source

“You've a magnificent brain, Moriarty. I admire it.”

Pinned on unknown Verifying source

“Pressure is a privilege.”

Pinned on Billie Jean King Verifying source

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