Categories Starting with “C”

“When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.”

— Bill Gates

“Among the many arguments to be made against cultural revolutions is that they are monotonous in spirit and monomaniacal in intention.”

— Howard Jacobson

“It is extremely important to me to write for children.”

— Stephen Hawking

“What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.”

— Buddha

“Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.”

— Victor Hugo

“Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.”

— Salman Rushdie

“I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.”

— Angela Davis

“Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.”

— Douglas Coupland

“And every human being is precious.”

— Desmond Tutu

“Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”

— Emily Dickinson

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”

— Edmund Burke

“The actual organization of behavior goes on the level of the individual nerve cells and their connections, and we have a hundred billion nerve cells, probably a hundred trillion connections. It's just mind-boggling to think of all the different ways in which they're arranged in a baby's head.”

— Steven Pinker

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

— Cicero

“What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.”

— Gloria Steinem

“A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.”

— Bill Gates

“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”

— Michelangelo

“When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.”

— Desmond Tutu

“I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.”

— Karl Lagerfeld