If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khrushchev
Recitation: by Male by Female
Some old people, they remember that they used to play clarinet, and they remember the squeaks of the clarinet. But I don't play like that.
Anat Cohen
PeopleRememberPlayOld PeopleOld
It's not all about becoming an NBA player; sometimes it's about becoming your best self and making the biggest impact you can make.
Metta World Peace
BestSelfImpactYouSometimesNBA
Although floating and fixed rates appear dissimilar, they are members of the same freemarket family. Both operate without exchange controls and are free-market mechanisms for balance-of-payment adjustments.
Steve Hanke
FamilySameFloatingWithoutMembers
It's something you're born with, and you realize that you're trapped in the wrong body. It's not like one day you're like, 'I want to be transgender!'
Jazz Jennings
DayYouBodyBornWrongWant
I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.
Christine O'Donnell
CarJobMeWorryStudentNever
The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.
Condoleezza Rice
OpportunityFreedomPeopleReality
Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.
Brian Wilson
SayingNowUnderstandMental Illness
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
William S. Burroughs
HappinessPurposeWarVictorySeek
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
William James
PositivePowerOptimismWeakness
Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.
William Labov
AmericanYearsWellBeenHundred
You see billions and billions of stars and recognize that you know some of those have planets, too, and maybe there's life out there, and this is just one of billions of galaxies... and so it gives you this huge perspective of how far we potentially have to go for real exploration.
Peggy Whitson
LifeStarsPerspectiveYouGoKnow
A wedding is such a girl thing.
Selma Blair
GirlWeddingThing
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