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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
F. Scott Fitzgerald

After, Ourselves, Afternoon

I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.
Andy Rooney

Money, Hope, Government

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis Bacon

Men, Leave, Memory

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
Robert Collier

Time, Win, Adversity

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
E. O. Wilson

Social, Earth, Humans

People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that.
Chuck Palahniuk

Time, Give, Wanted

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
Chuck Palahniuk

History, Movies, Between

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Write, Youth, Generation

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.
Harvey Fierstein

Life, Work, May

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
Aleister Crowley

Woman, Kiss, Touch

Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.
Richard King

May, Opinion, Everyone

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
Nikola Tesla

Power, Fire, May

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.
LeBron James

Hope, Home, Mom

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.
Paul Kane

Patience, End, Win

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.
Harry S. Truman

Remember, Hell, Here

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.
J. Michael Straczynski

Work, Person, Find

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
Jane Austen

Sure, Month, Mend

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
Horace

Business, Fire, Door

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
Jackie Chan

Wanted, Bruce, Chan

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Charles Caleb Colton

Good, Best, Friends

There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
E. O. Wilson

Revolution, Seem, Green

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
Malcolm Forbes

Time, Forget, Won

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
Lee Iacocca

Work, Him, Down

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Change, Happy

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
E. M. Forster

Husband, Happens

I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.
Joan Crawford

Important, Woman, Her

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?
Tyra Banks

Women, Girl, Sexy

In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Time, Found, Office

Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?
Paul Ryan

Life, Change, Leadership

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
Dag Hammarskjold

Time, Christmas, Happy

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